Noun, : The car gained momentum going downhill. Her career lost momentum after two unsuccessful films. From Dictionary.com.
Without good control, the electrons are emitted with a range of energies and momenta, meaning that they are not all focused to the same location by the electron optics. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
So we put it into the ratio of angular momenta amd L/L' ~ .14. From Wordnik.com. [Shedding Light on the Sun's "Lithium Mystery" | Universe Today] Reference
Then you stop the computer, reverse all momenta, and evolve forward. From Wordnik.com. [Arrow of Time FAQ] Reference
A rough estimate could consider the ratio of the angular momenta of the sun to Jupiter. From Wordnik.com. [Shedding Light on the Sun's "Lithium Mystery" | Universe Today] Reference
The observables are functions on phase space, functions of the positions and momenta of the particles. From Wordnik.com. [Bohmian Mechanics] Reference
And since the star is about the same age as ours, planets have had plenty of time to waste momenta and lock. From Wordnik.com. [Potentially Habitable Planet Found - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The ATLAS detector uses two large magnet systems to bend charged particles so that their momenta can be measured. From Wordnik.com. [Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss] Reference
It is realized via random motion of particles chaotically exchanging their energy and momenta through collisions. From Wordnik.com. [Sewell's Thermodynamic Failure - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Also, things like loops and the like in Feynman diagrams are perturbation terms with a summation over their momenta. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Matter: Still Dark.] Reference
But what we actually have access to are the positions and momenta of the photons that are currently reaching our telescopes. From Wordnik.com. [Boltzmann’s Anthropic Brain] Reference
I'm working on a couple of books at the momenta crime story set in Sri Lanka and a sequel to A Guide to the Birds of East Africa. From Wordnik.com. [A Conversation with Nicholas Drayson about his novel, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa] Reference
The state of a system of classical particles is represented as a point in a phase space coordinatized by their positions and momenta. From Wordnik.com. [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference
The Hamiltonian expression of the momenta of the system can be derived from the Lagrangian, and vice versa, using a Legendre transform. From Wordnik.com. [Hermann von Helmholtz] Reference
Microscopic systems may be in a superposition state of spin components, energies, positions, momenta as well as other physical observables. From Wordnik.com. [Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics] Reference
A change in the scale of measuring coordinates and momenta produces a multiplicative factor in W, which results in an additive constant in S. From Wordnik.com. [Sewell's Thermodynamic Failure - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Though turning speeds this near the hub weren't great, they were opposed; the space between units was narrow; the angular momenta were gigantic. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
In the cosmology/astrophysics community, dark matter was proposed because observations of galactic angular momenta disagreed with existing theory. From Wordnik.com. [Hansen: Obama has only four years to save the world - NASA Watch] Reference
We can characterize the gas by the coordinates and momenta xin, pin of each of its particles and represent the whole system by a point X = (q, p) in a. From Wordnik.com. [Thermodynamic Asymmetry in Time] Reference
The Hamiltonian equations also evaluate potential and kinetic energy in a system, but use an integral sum of the momenta of the elements of the system, H. From Wordnik.com. [Hermann von Helmholtz] Reference
Atthis momenta man rushed from the Tatar lines as if he were a prisoner escaping, and he dashed into the middle of the Polish troops, shouting in good Polish. From Wordnik.com. [Poland]
The momenta of two portions of matter are the products of their inertiæ by their motions, and, in the present case, we must take the inertiæ of equal spaces. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
Even though the massive planet has ~ 10 times the angular momenta of Earth, it is ~ 30 times more affected by its sun distance and mass, not counting the effect of water. From Wordnik.com. [Potentially Habitable Planet Found - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The momenta, and therefore the directions, of the daughter photons are strictly correlated, which ensures that a non-negligible proportion of the pairs jointly enter the apertures. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Theorem] Reference
She reminded him of himself in any way ... before momenta. From Wordnik.com. [Free Downloads Archive - Popular services - RapidShare, DepositFiles, Megaupload, Mediafire, HotFile, Uploading, Easy-Share, FileFactory, Vip-File, Shared] Reference
Quel sensibile momenta sarà indelebile nella mia memoria. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference
For, individual momenta, like those of physical forces are compounds. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked.] Reference
It seems to be the result of a quite complicated interplay of the various angular momenta. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]
The practical elements (momenta attendenda) constitutive of the process of original acquisition are. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Right] Reference
But if I give you the energy, positions, and momenta of every particle in there, you can give me the entropy. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Igitur fic diftilla, quando gutta mcipit cadere, quod fexagin ta odOjUt dicit Arnoldus» ud feptuaginta momenta, antc. From Wordnik.com. [Praeciosa ac nobilissima artis chymiae collectanea de occultissimo ac ...] Reference
Let them preserve but the flame alive on the altar, and at the last momenta they may be found in the act of sacrifice!. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions] Reference
Because at a hadron collider muons are well measured and identified with small backgrounds even when they have relatively low momenta. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Blogging] Reference
Blood dwell for a certain brief space "(per certa momenta). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
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