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force and current
In this hour of crisis, the wisdom, the dedication, the stabilizing force that he represents in current American government is an almost indispensable source of strength.
Prokofieff might well emerge as a cultural hero, who, by the force of his creative life, helped preserve the main stream of tradition, to which the surviving idioms of current experimentalism may be eventually added and integrated.
Therefore, the sixth principle of the plan must be that it concentrate on current measures which will reduce future force requirements.
Ampère's force law states that there is an attractive or repulsive force between two parallel wires carrying an electric current.
This force is used in the formal definition of the ampere, which states that it is " the constant current that will produce an attractive force of 2 × 10 < sup >– 7 </ sup > newton per metre of length between two straight, parallel conductors of infinite length and negligible circular cross section placed one metre apart in a vacuum ".
The ampere was originally defined as one tenth of the CGS system electromagnetic unit of current ( now known as the abampere ), the amount of current that generates a force of two dynes per centimetre of length between two wires one centimetre apart.
< font face =" arial " color =" red "> Wire carrying current to be measured .</ font >< font face =" arial " color =" green "> Spring providing restoring force </ font > This illustration is conceptual ; in a practical meter, the iron core is stationary, and front and rear spiral springs carry current to the coil, which is supported on a rectangular bobbin.
As alternating or direct current flows through the coil and induces a magnetic field in both vanes, the vanes repel each other and the moving vane deflects against the restoring force provided by fine helical springs.
Plans in the U. S. and Russia for successors to the current strategic bomber force remain only paper projects, and political and funding pressures suggest that they are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.
The number of ratification for the entry-into force of the Ban Amendment is under debate: Amendments to the convention enter into force after ratification of " three-fourths of the Parties who accepted them " 17. 5 ; so far, the Parties of the Basel Convention could not yet agree whether this would be three fourth of the Parties that were Party to the Basel Convention when the Ban was adopted, or three fourth of the current Parties of the ConventionReport of COP 9 of the Basel Convention.
The current law in force was enacted in 1920 called Provincial Insolvency Act.
The symbol was used by André-Marie Ampère, after whom the unit of electric current is named, in formulating the eponymous Ampère's force law which he discovered in 1820.
When a metal wire is subjected to electric force applied on its opposite ends, these free electrons rush in the direction of the force, thus forming what we call an electric current.
To illustrate the difference: The sound and the change in the air's drift velocity ( the force of the wind gust ) cross distance at rates equaling the speeds of sound and of mechanical transmission of force ( not higher than rate of drift velocity ); while a change in an EM field and the change in current ( electrons ' drift velocity ) both propagate across distance at rates much higher than the actual drift velocity.
You can hear wind much earlier than the force of the gust reaches you, but you do not observe a change in an EM field earlier than you can observe the change of current.
" The force also depended on the direction of the current, for if the flow was reversed, then the force did too.
Ørsted did not fully understand his discovery, but he observed the effect was reciprocal: a current exerts a force on a magnet, and a magnetic field exerts a force on a current.

force and then
This and other fears of the solar system have disappeared gradually, first, with the Ptolemaic system and its built-in concept of periodicity and then, more firmly, with the Newtonian innovation of an universal force that could account quantitatively for both terrestial and celestial motions.
His problem then became one of restraining the American fighters who wanted to clean out the Vermejo by force immediately.
The first Abstract Expressionists were considered madmen to give up their brushes and rely on the sheer force of energy to leave an image, but then the import of atomic bombs, all atomic energy, became realized, and art found no better way of expressing its power.
An advantage of a deadweight anchor over a mushroom is that if it does become dragged, then it continues to provide its original holding force.
The victorious fleet was then caught unaware when attempting to leave the River Stour and was attacked by a Danish force at the mouth of the river.
Once these projects have been approved by the United States Air Force or other agencies such as the CIA, and are ready to be announced to the public, operations of the aircraft are then moved to a normal air force base.
If the net force on some body is directed always toward some fixed point, the center, then there is no torque on the body with respect to the center, and so the angular momentum of the body about the center is constant.
Tallard then returned with his own force to the Rhine, once again side-stepping Thüngen's efforts to intercept him.
Bonaparte, aware of Nelson's pursuit, enforced absolute secrecy about his destination and was able to capture Malta and then land in Egypt without interception by the British force.
In 490 BC, he sent a naval task force under Datis and Artaphernes across the Aegean, to subjugate the Cyclades, and then to make punitive attacks on Athens and Eretria.
The Persian force then sailed for Attica, landing in the bay near the town of Marathon.
The expedition was intended to bring the Cyclades into the Persian empire, to punish Naxos ( which had resisted a Persian assault in 499 BC ) and then to head to Greece to force Eretria and Athens to submit to Darius or be destroyed.
Initially you think it is your own train accelerating, but then notice with surprise that you feel no force.
In the early part of the war, the professional force of the BEF was virtually destroyed and, by turns, a volunteer ( and then conscripted ) force replaced it.
For it hath been held, that if an uninhabited country be discovered and planted by English subjects, all the English laws then in being, which are the birthright of every subject, are immediately there in force ...
Çevik Bir, who was then a lieutenant-general of Turkey, became the force commander of UNOSOM II in 1993.
The total contact force on the particular internal surface is then expressed as the sum ( surface integral ) of the contact forces on all differential surfaces:
The Guard was then built into a counter revolutionary force by the CIA and Argentine trainers.
Part of the Fremen / Atreides strategy is to wait until a sandstorm shorts out the force field shields of the Harkonnen / Imperial transport ships, disable them with projectile weapons, and then attack with a vast assault force, using giant sandworms under cover of the severe weather to break the enemy lines.
Overlap occurs between these usages because deities or godlike entities are often identical with and / or identified by the powers and forces that are credited to them — in many cases a deity is merely a power or force personified — and these powers and forces may then be extended or granted to mortal individuals.
The Sultan then sent a force against him, and he was compelled to flee the land and seek refuge in the courts of Tuscany and Naples in 1614.
He then became the naval advisor to the Army Council from 1906 to 1908 where he was involved with drawing up plans for joint operations to land an expeditionary force in Europe.
Roberts then led the main British force from Kabul and decisively defeated Ayub Khan in September at the Battle of Kandahar, bringing his rebellion to an end.

force and pushes
Since work is defined as a force acting through a distance ( a length of space ), energy is always equivalent to the ability to exert pulls or pushes against the basic forces of nature, along a path of a certain length.
This can easily be understood by considering the direction of the greatest principal stress, the direction of the force that ' pushes ' the rock mass during the faulting.
The whig approach emphasizes the origins of today's positive political features, with history seen as a force that pushes society forward.
The foot pushes backward and also down, creating a diagonal force vector, which, in an efficient running style, is aimed squarely at the runner's centre of mass.
Because the Ringworld spins fast enough to provide gravity, once the police station and ship are on the underside, centrifugal force pushes them outward from the ring into open space.
* when the boat is going in the same direction as the wind, the wind force simply pushes on the sail.
The lee side of the hull is more under water than the weather side and the resulting shape of the submerged parts of the hull usually creates a force that pushes the bow to weather.
This is because the energy the swing absorbs is maximized when the pushes are ' in phase ' with the swing's oscillations, while some of the swing's energy is actually extracted by the opposing force of the pushes when they are not.
Or if an opponent pushes the left side of your body, you can act as a revolving door and use that force in an attack with your right arm.
In a rimfire case, centrifugal force pushes a liquid priming compound into the internal recess of the folded rim as the manufacturer spins the case at a high rate and heats the spinning case to dry the priming compound mixture in place within the hollow cavity formed within the rim fold at the perimeter of the case interior.
This center of pressure of the added flow field is behind the center of gravity and the additional force " points " in the direction of the added angle of attack, this produces a moment that pushes the vehicle back to the trim position.
The increased high pressure exerts a greater amount of force on the piston and pushes it towards the BDC.
During the main phase of a geomagnetic storm, electric current in the magnetosphere create magnetic force which pushes out the boundary between the magnetosphere and the solar wind.
Root pressure provides a force, which pushes water up the stem, but it is not enough to account for the movement of water to leaves at the top of the tallest trees.
Upon firing, rearward force from the recoil of the cartridge ignition pushes the striker assembly back and allows the rollers to move inwards, back to their previous position, unlocking the bolt head and allowing the bolt assembly to recoil, extracting the spent cartridge and ejecting it.
The hydraulic pump, attached to the tool or as a separate unit, powers a piston that pushes the blades apart with great force and spreads the seam.
As long as they are not stretched or compressed beyond their elastic limit, most springs obey Hooke's law, which states that the force with which the spring pushes back is linearly proportional to the distance from its equilibrium length:
Techniques encompass a variety of pushes, pulls, weight shifts and joint locks designed to " move " the opponent, often taking advantage of their weight and direction of force to throw them off balance.
In some geometries the overall force of eddy currents can be attractive, for example, where the flux lines are past 90 degrees to a surface, the induced currents in a nearby conductor cause a force that pushes a conductor towards an electromagnet.
The merman attempts to force himself upon Lois before she pushes him down and leaves him flapping helplessly in the sand.
The turning force at the wheel may be provided either from a gearing system at the hub ( making use of the presence of e. g. a hub brake, cylinder gear or dynamo ) as per a typical motorcycle, or with a friction wheel device that pushes against the outer edge of the rim ( same position as rim brakes, but on the opposite edge of the fork ) or the sidewall of the tyre itself.
He explained, " Most players skate on their inside edge and push off at a 45-degree angle, but Bure starts on his outer edge and rolls over to his inside edge and pushes back straighter on his stride ... he gets more power and force in his stride to get up to top speed quicker.

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