"sphere" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The invention of the shot tower enabled economical production of many nearly perfect lead spheres of the right size to fit in a musket.
- Below is a chart with diameters per pellet and weight for idealized lead spheres.
- Wire strands held a narrow platform, opposite which a one-tonne lead sphere counterrotated at the end of an adjustable arm.
- The experimental apparatus consisted of a torsion balance with a pair of 2-inch 1.61-pound lead spheres suspended from the arm of a torsion balance and two much larger stationary lead balls (350 pounds), and Cavendish intended to measure the force of gravitational attraction between the two.
- Majorana's experiments determined that mercury or lead around a suspended lead sphere acted as a screen and slightly decreased the Earth's gravitational pull.
- Two 350-pound lead spheres placed nearby exerted just enough gravitational force to tug at the smaller balls, causing the dumbbell to move and the wire to twist.
- This is not the weight of the rocket itself, but rather of a lead sphere whose diameter matches that of the rocket motor, officially defined as "The weight of a lead sphere that is just supported by a tube that the rocket motor will just fit into."
- Sitting gaunt and bent on the tall stool, staring moodily at the long bright needle and the lead sphere, the old man didn't answer.
- The arm stopped rotating when it reached an angle where the twisting force of the wire balanced the combined gravitational force of attraction between the large and small lead spheres.
- A hollow space of about a thousand cubic inches remained in them, and in this space now, Aarn was arranging a lead sphere suspended from one arm of a long-arm balance.
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