We see that great perturbations generally happen in regions where the atmosphere is in unstable equilibrium.
Well, for this observer, effects and causes would be inverted; unstable equilibrium would no longer be the exception.
Because of the universal irreversibility, all would seem to him to come out of a sort of chaos in unstable equilibrium.
The first example we select is that of unstable equilibrium; if a cone rests upon its apex, we know well that it will fall, but we do not know toward what side; it seems to us chance alone will decide.
Therefore any calculus of the Chances of Peace appears to become a reckoning of the forces which may be counted on to keep a patriotic nation in an unstable equilibrium of peace for the time being.
Hence any calculus of the Chances of Peace will be a reckoning of forces which may be counted on to keep a patriotic nation in an unstable equilibrium of peace, 78.
The ideal of the nineteenth-century statesmen was to keep the peace by a balance of power; an unstable equilibrium of rivalries, in which it was recognised that eternal vigilance was the price of peace by equilibration.
It has been said that were the rings to break up, in consequence of their being in a state of unstable equilibrium, they would fall back upon the planet, but that would depend on circumstances.
This truth is, that the condition of homogeneity is a condition of unstable equilibrium.
That all homogeneous aggregates are in unstable equilibrium is a universal truth, from which is deducible the instability of every organic germ.
A human body, like a mass of dynamite, contains a store of energy in unstable equilibrium, ready to be directed in this direction or that by a disturbance which is physically very small, such as a spoken word.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unstable equilibrium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.