For example, the increase in rotational speed of a spinning figure skater as the skater's arms are contracted is a consequence of conservation of angular momentum.

Another purpose of the spin is to build up a high rotational speed, by swinging the right leg initially, then to bring all the limbs in tightly, similar to a figure skater bringing in their arms while spinning to increase their speed.

Olympic Champion figure skater John Curry notably performed his jumps in one direction ( anti-clockwise ) while spinning predominantly in the other.

Once they stop spinning around, they have to quickly regain their equilibrium and figure out which way is up.

After spinning, the contestant was given a series of rapid-fire definitions and had to figure out what those definitions referred to.

Lucinda Martha Ruh ( born July 13, 1979 in Zurich, Switzerland ) is a two-time Swiss national figure skating champion known for her extreme flexibility and outstanding spinning ability.

This window displays four allegories: Victory, as a woman holdng a crown and surrounded by a laurel branch and a helmet on a shield ; Labour, a male figure amongst objects such as a shovel, spinning wheel, and astrolabe, with the motto Fortitudo Industria et Pax ( Strength Industry and Peace ); Progress, a man holding a book and quill, surrounded by a celestial crown, weighing scales, hourglass, and galley ; and Science, a male holding a microscope and flask, amongst symbols such as a globe and torch, all below a ribbon indicating metallurgy, mineralogy, and chemistry.

A second-version figure of the character, 1986's Hurricane Hordak, with vac-metallized gold armor and an arsenal of spinning propellor weapons, corresponds to the Flying Fists He-Man and Terror Claws Skeletor figures of the same year.

Habetrot ( Habitrot, Habtrot and Habbitrot ) is a figure in folklore of the Border counties of Northern England and Lowland Scotland associated with spinning and the spinning wheel.

* An illusion spin has a basic position similar to the camel, but instead of remaining " flat " throughout the duration of the spin the skater's body tilts up and down while the skater is spinning.

Combined with the rotation around the jumper's vertical axis produced by the drive leg ( think of an ice skater spinning round on the spot ) the resulting body position on bar clearance is laid out supine with the body at ninety degrees to the bar with the head and shoulders crossing the bar before the trunk and legs.

Roller skating also traditionally emphasizes spins that are uncommon on ice, especially the inverted camel in which the skater is on an outside edge standing on the right foot with their body and left leg extended outward parallel to the floor, the skater then rotates their hips 180 degrees while continuing to spin so that they are spinning upside down.

This layout allows for better weight distribution ( with the engine farther aft ), and places the prop farther forward, which reduces the danger of the spinning prop near the stern of the vessel, where riders enter and exit the water.

With a fixed spool, spin cast reels can cast lighter lures than bait cast reels, although friction of the nose cone against the unspooling line slightly reduces casting distance compared to spinning reels.

The dope then enters a mixer-diluter that reduces the viscosity to a consistency that is optimal for spinning.

A reduction is achieved in the kinetic energy in the circular air flow, which reduces the amount of fuel expended to perform work upon the spinning air.

Honda's variable flow turbocharger reduces turbo lag by using a valve to narrow the exhaust passage at low rpm, increasing the velocity of the exhaust flow and keeping the turbine spinning rapidly.

Placing the fan within a duct reduces tip vortex losses, shields the tail rotor from damage, shields ground crews from the hazard of a spinning rotor, and is much quieter than a conventional tail rotor.

Johnson's mother Mary took in work spinning and weaving to support her family.

She was infuriated but continued working, spinning 100 pounds of wool, to satisfy her sense of obligation to him.

However, in a recent edition, she bought the best quality food from a market and raced off to her kitchen to put it in the freezer to keep it fresh ; but she accidentally lost control of her bike on the way and was spinning for 23 days, so when she got to her kitchen, she had rotten food and was too dizzy to put the food in the right bowls.

According to Pindar's ninth Pythian Ode and Apollonius ' Argonautica ( II. 522ff ), Cyrene despised spinning and other womanly arts and instead spent her days hunting, but, in a prophecy he put in the mouth of the wise centaur Chiron, Apollo would spirit her to Libya and make her the foundress of a great city, Cyrene, in a fertile coastal plain.

Plutarch, in his vita of Pericles, 24, mentions lost comedies of Kratinos and Eupolis, which alluded to the contemporary capacity of Aspasia in the household of Pericles, and to Sophocles in The Trachiniae it was shameful for Heracles to serve an Oriental woman in this fashion, but there are many late Hellenistic and Roman references in texts and art to Heracles being forced to do women's work and even wear women's clothing and hold a basket of wool while Omphale and her maidens did their spinning, as Ovid tells: Omphale even wore the skin of the Nemean Lion and carried Heracles ' olive-wood club.

* One of the most famous symphonic poems in a mythological series composed by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns in the 1870s is titled Le Rouet d ' Omphale, or The Spinning Wheel Of Omphale, the rouet being a spinning wheel that the queen and her maidens used — in this version of the myth, it was Delphic Apollo who condemned the hero to serve the Lydian queen disguised as a woman.

The events of the revolution send Clarke ( and Boyle ) spinning off into the outer Solar System at the end of Red Mars ; Green Mars finds her back in the equation, but her influence is greatly reduced against the backdrop of a much-expanded UNTA presence.

In her epistle dedication to Sir Charles Cavendish, her brother in law, Cavendish compares writing poetry to spinning and describes poetry as mental spinning.

As in this epistle, Cavendish often employs metaphors to describe her writing in terms of stereotypically feminine tasks or interests, such as spinning, fashion and motherhood.

The commander gave her a pass to the mainland for herself, a manservant, an Irish spinning maid, Betty Burke, and a boat's crew of six men.

She then has her daughter dying the wool and spinning it.

Here, for the first time, was someone who could tell us from her own experience what it was like to be extremely sound sensitive (" like being tied to the rail and the train's coming ")... She was asked many questions: " Why does my son do so much spinning?

When the princess is fifteen or sixteen and her parents are away on pleasure bent, she wanders through the palace rooms going up and down and then chances upon an old woman who is spinning with her distaff in the garret of a tower and had not heard of the king's decree against spinning wheels.

This second term can be even further simplified if the particles form a rigid body, in which case it is the product of moment of inertia and angular velocity of the spinning motion ( as above ).

Therefore some magnetos have an impulse coupling, a springlike mechanical linkage between the engine and magneto drive shaft which " winds up " and " lets go " at the proper moment for spinning the magneto shaft.

While a simple scalar treatment of the moment of inertia suffices for many situations, a more advanced tensor treatment allows the analysis of such complicated systems as spinning tops and gyroscopic motion.

A London moment gyroscope relies on the quantum-mechanical phenomenon, whereby a spinning superconductor generates a magnetic field whose axis lines up exactly with the spin axis of the gyroscopic rotor.

When gas turbines are used in extended-range electric vehicles, like those planned by Land-Rover / Range-Rover in conjunction with Bladon, or by Jaguar also in partnership with Bladon, the very poor throttling response ( their high moment of rotational inertia ) does not matter, because the gas turbine, which may be spinning at 100, 000 rpm, is not directly, mechanically connected to the wheels.

The moment of inertia is the measure of resistance to torque applied on a spinning object ( i. e. the higher the moment of inertia, the slower it will spin when a given force is applied ).

While a simple scalar treatment of the moment of inertia suffices for many situations, a more advanced tensor treatment allows the analysis of such complicated systems as spinning tops and gyroscopic motion.

Though the moment itself was not described, Ludd caught her attention by levitating metallic silver and gold stars and setting them spinning about near the ceiling of the Stationery Cupboard, and dimming the lighting to velvety darkness, both rather romantic gestures.

“ Few observers have shown more sympathy … with the religious and social practices of the Hindus than Geddes did ; yet no one could have written more scathingly of Mahatma Gandhi ’ s attempt to conserve the past by reverting to the spinning wheel, at a moment when the fundamental poverty of the masses in India called for the most resourceful application of the machine both to agricultural and industrial life .’

( A spinning superconductor generates a magnetic field precisely aligned with the rotation axis – see London moment.

The above equation can be used for calculating a magnetic moment of any assembly of moving charges, such as a spinning charged solid, by substituting

This implies that a more massive assembly of charges spinning with the same angular momentum will have a proportionately weaker magnetic moment, compared to its lighter counterpart.

This can be understood with the following classical picture: if we imagine that the spin angular momentum is created by the electron mass spinning around some axis, the electric current that this rotation creates circulates in the opposite direction, because of the negative charge of the electron ; such current loops produce a magnetic moment which is antiparallel to the spin.

In 2006, Martin Tajmar and several coworkers at the Austrian Research Center ( ARC ) Seibersdorf announced their claim to have measured the gravitomagnetic London moment of Cooper pairs in a superconducting ring spinning at 6500 rpm.

Heavier wheels have a greater moment of inertia and their spinning takes away energy that would otherwise contribute to the speed of the car.

Its form was that of a worm-shapen column, huge as a dragon, its further coils still issuing from the gloom of the corridor ; but it changed from moment to moment, swirling and spinning as if alive with the vortical energies of dark aeons.

The moment she was completed naked, Chan would jump on the table, and four guys would pull each rope, spinning her around so that everyone had a good view.