By using a counterweight, a cable would be lowered from the geosynchronous orbit to the surface of Earth while the counterweight was extended from the satellite away from Earth, keeping the center of mass of the cable at the same height above the Earth.

One of the two main crises in the book happens when the Starclimber team discovers that the counterweight rocket ( used to hold up the elevator cable ) never got to its intended height, and was slowly falling.

This is called the ' blow ' or ' spout ' and varies by species in terms of shape, angle and height.

Cell horizontal radius varies depending on antenna height, antenna gain and propagation conditions from a couple of hundred metres to several tens of kilometres.

Also, the lynx's colouring, fur height and paw size varies by its climate range — in the Southwestern United States, the fur and colour are short-haired, dark and the paws are smaller and less padded ; as the lynx ranges to its colder northern climates, the fur gets progressively thicker ( for warmth ), the colour gets lighter ( for camouflage ) and its paws enlarge and become more padded ( for snowy environments ).

The barometric fuze was not considered accurate enough to detonate the bomb at the precise ignition height, because air pressure varies with local conditions.

After the munition is dropped or fired, the first explosive charge bursts open the container at a predetermined height and disperses the fuel in a cloud that mixes with atmospheric oxygen ( the size of the cloud varies with the size of the munition ).

The F region contains ionized gases at a height of around 150 – 800 km above sea level, placing it in the Earth ’ s thermosphere, a hot region in the upper atmosphere, and also in the heterosphere, where chemical composition varies with height.

The impedance of the antenna varies based on many factors including: the antenna's natural resonance at the frequency being transmitted, the antenna's height above the ground, and the size of the conductors used to construct the antenna.

Their shoulder height varies from.

The Horseshoe Falls drop about, while the height of the American Falls varies between because of the presence of giant boulders at its base.

Climate in the Blue Mountains region varies with height, but generally Katoomba falls within the criteria of a subtropical highland climate ( Köppen climate classification Cfb ).

The height of the plant varies from less than.

The tomte / nisse was often imagined as a small, elderly man ( size varies from a few inches to about half the height of an adult man ), often with a full beard ; dressed in the everyday clothing of a farmer.

On high-performance engines, the camshaft is movable and the cams have a varying height, so by axially moving the camshaft in relation with the engine RPM, also the valve lift varies.

The height varies from to above the ordnance datum on the cliffs to on the moors.

All notes have the same 70mm height, while their length varies on 7mm steps according to their value: the shortest is the 1000 pesos note and the longest is the 20, 000 pesos.

This height varies according to habitat, but while nests have been found almost 40 m ( 44 yards ) up, most are 2 – 16 m above ground.

The height ranges from 60 to 70 cm ( 23 to 27 in ) when fully grown ( 24 months ), and the weight of an adult varies between 50 to 80 kg ( 110 to 175 lbs ).

The crest of the Port Hills varies somewhat in height, being lowest at the eastern end.

The depth varies between 700 mm and 900 mm, and the height between 1900 mm and 2700 mm.

In Portuguese, Ã / ã represents a nasal central unrounded vowel, ( its exact height varies from open to mid according to dialect ).

where the turbulence strength varies as a function of height above the telescope, and is the angular distance of the astronomical source from the zenith ( from directly overhead ).

Varying with the Bank's unbroken increase in height, to, above mean high water, the size of the flint and chert shingle varies from pea-sized at the north-west end ( by West Bay ) to orange-sized at the south-east end ( by Portland ).

We stopped first at the amphitheater that lies at the foot of the height crowned by the Parthenon.

He is most effective in the ordinary business of the House, and in the legislative accomplishments of this session, he easily rose to great occasion -- even at the height of unpleasantness and exciting legislative struggle -- and as the Nation witnessed these contests, he rose, even as admitted by those who differed with him, to the proportions of a hero and a noble partisan.

Consider a shear field with a height of H and a cross-sectional area of A opposed by a manometer with a height of H ( referred to the same base as H ) and a cross-sectional area of A.

If Af is the change per unit volume in Gibbs function caused by the shear field at constant P and T, and **yr is the density of the fluid, then the total potential energy of the system above the reference height is Af.

At the present time we do not know by what biochemical mechanism TSH acts on the thyroid, but for bio-assay of the hormone there are a number of properties by which its activity may be estimated, including release of iodine from the thyroid, increase in thyroid weight, increase in mean height of the follicular cells and increase in the thyroidal uptake of Af.

One who had been a boy in Auschwitz had to tell how children had been selected by height for the gas chambers.

The Chinese world view during the Han dynasty, when the Lo Shu seems to have been at the height of its popularity, was based in large part on the teachings of the Yin-Yang and Five-Elements School, which was traditionally founded by Tsou Yen.

Cinematographic aspect ratios are usually denoted as a ( rounded ) decimal multiple of width vs unit height, while photographic and videographic aspect ratios are usually defined and denoted by whole number ratios of width to height.

It was controversially shut down by the Russian authorities in June 2006, at the height of a Russian-Georgian spy scandal.

In his instrument, temperatures were indicated by the height at which a column of mercury was sustained by a certain mass of air, the volume, or " spring ", of which varied with the heat to which it was exposed.

The Trojan War is supposed by many to have occurred at the height of the Mycenaean civilization ( see discussion of Troy VII ), roughly the point at which this palace appears to have been abandoned.

However, the rule of the dynasty was relatively short-lived and the Almoravids fell-at the height of their power-when they failed to quell the Masmuda-led rebellion initiated by Ibn Tumart.

At the height of the French Revolution, he was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of selling adulterated tobacco, and of other crimes and was eventually guillotined a year after Marat's death.

Both in the east and west of the continent the bordering highlands are continued as strips of plateau parallel to the coast, the Ethiopian mountains being continued northwards along the Red Sea coast by a series of ridges reaching in places a height of.

Exactly at the head of the gulf the great peak of the Cameroon, on a line of volcanic action continued by the islands to the south-west, has a height of, while Clarence Peak, in Fernando Po, the first of the line of islands, rises to over.

Mordell's theorem had an ad hoc proof ; Weil began the separation of the infinite descent argument into two types of structural approach, by means of height functions for sizing rational points, and by means of Galois cohomology, which was not to be clearly named as that for two more decades.

In other words AVL tree is a binary search tree where the height of the left subtree differs from the height of the right subtree by at most 1 level, if it exceeds 1 level then rebalancing occurs.

Basic operations of an AVL tree involve carrying out the same actions as would be carried out on an unbalanced binary search tree, but modifications are preceded or followed by one or more operations called tree rotations, which help to restore the height balance of the subtrees.

If the balance factor becomes 0 then the height of the subtree has decreased by one and the retracing needs to continue.