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For the simple electric dipole given above, the electric dipole moment points from the negative charge towards the positive charge, and has a magnitude equal to the strength of each charge times the separation between the charges.
For the current loop, the magnetic dipole moment points through the loop ( according to the right hand grip rule ), with a magnitude equal to the current in the loop times the area of the loop.
* 1976 – The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7. 8 and 8. 2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242, 769 and injuring 164, 851.
* 1960 – An earthquake measuring 9. 5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile.
It measures the effects of an earthquake, and is distinct from the moment magnitude usually reported for an earthquake ( sometimes described as the obsolete Richter magnitude ), which is a measure of the energy released.
The magnitude of the moment of a force at a point O, is equal to the perpendicular distance from O to the line of action of F, multiplied by the magnitude of the force: M
where h is the maximum tsunami-wave amplitude ( in m ) measured by a tide gauge at a distance R from the epicenter, a, b & D are constants used to make the M < sub > t </ sub > scale match as closely as possible with the moment magnitude scale.
* June 15 – A powerful earthquake, registering a moment magnitude of 6. 2, hits the city of Aigio, Greece, resulting in several deaths and significant damage to many buildings.
* February 7 – The last New Madrid Earthquake strikes New Madrid, Missouri, with an estimated moment magnitude of over 8 ;
The magnitude of the CCH is an instantaneous value subject to change as a function of time ( i. e. from moment to moment ), and is subject to study including load curve and busy hour as other measures of traffic are.
For a bar magnet, the direction of the magnetic moment points from the magnet's south pole to its north pole, and the magnitude relates to how strong and how far apart these poles are.
The strength of the magnetic field it produces is at any given point proportional to the magnitude of its magnetic moment.
A wire in the shape of a circle with area A and carrying current I is a magnet, with a magnetic moment of magnitude equal to IA.
A good bar magnet may have a magnetic moment of magnitude 0. 1 A • m < sup > 2 </ sup > and a volume of 1 cm < sup > 3 </ sup >, or 1 × 10 < sup >− 6 </ sup > m < sup > 3 </ sup >, and therefore an average magnetization magnitude is 100, 000 A / m.
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, the third largest earthquake recorded in history, registering a moment magnitude of 9. 1-9. 3.
* The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami registered a moment magnitude of 9. 0.
Although lower on the moment magnitude scale than the quake of September 2010, the intensity and violence of the ground shaking was measured to be VIII on the MMI and among the strongest ever recorded globally in an urban area due to the shallowness and proximity of the epicentre.
Before the earthquake of February 27, 2010, which measured 8. 8 on the moment magnitude scale, the last catastrophic earthquake to strike Valparaíso devastated the city in August 1906, killing nearly 3, 000 people.
It is more difficult to find the south celestial pole in the sky at this moment, as that area is a particularly bland portion of the sky, and the nominal south pole star is Sigma Octantis, which with magnitude 5. 5 is barely visible to the naked eye even under ideal conditions.
These moment sensors use multiple strain gauges to determine where the force is being applied to the knee, from the foot, and the magnitude of that force.

moment and is
He will not curb his instinctual desires but release the energy within him that makes him feel truly and fully alive, even if it is only for this brief moment before the apocalypse of annihilation explodes on earth.
For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby, at the moment of his collapse, all these elements come together in prophetic parody.
Indeed, it is probable that this point is reached the moment the third level of change begins.
This happens at the moment man loses the perception of moral substance in himself, of a nature that, in Maritain's words, is perceived as a `` locus of intelligible necessities ''.
If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??
it is a dedication which began the moment she met Carl.
Not for a moment do we forget that our own fate is firmly fastened to that of these countries ; ;
An idea, of the sort that we have in mind, although of necessity readily available to imagination, is more general in connotation than most poetic or literary images, especially those appearing in lyric poems that seek to capture a moment of personal experience.
Since Laos is of no more purely military value to Moscow itself than it is to Washington, this approach might be expected to head off Mr. Khrushchev for the moment.
If they do meet and recognize one another, slap backs and embrace, the moment soon is done.
The moment of truth is the moment of crisis.
Too often it is thought of at the last moment of new product introduction.
The number depends on who is talking at the moment.
`` I paint the nothing '', he said once to Franz Kline and myself, `` the nothing that is behind the something, the inexpressible, unpaintable ' tick ' in the unconscious, the ' spirit ' of the moment resting forever, suspended like a huge balloon, in non-time ''.
The general theory of resonance shifts is used to derive a general expression for the second moment Af of a polycrystalline paramagnetic sample and is specialized to Af.
Field shifts were derived from the mean value of the resonance line, defined as the field about which the first moment is zero.
But it is true that the therapist can sense, when he hears this stereotype, that there are at this moment many emotional determinants at work in it, a blurred babel of indistinct voices which have yet to become clearly delineated from one another.
But when to represents to consciousness in that was the moment that I came to, and similarly in that was the moment I came to, there is much stronger stress on to.
But to say that at a moment in history something is new is not necessarily to say that it is modern ; ;

moment and most
Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.
It is mirrored by the individual Willie Lohmans, whose ideas and behavior patterns are so dependent and relativistic that they always coincide with those of the individual or group present and most important at the moment.
It seemed the most important thing in my life at this moment that she should know the real truth about me.
As freedom of expression or movement is the objective, the most appropriate responses cannot be anticipated, but are observed and chosen in the moment.
In these situations, arbitrageurs may receive margin calls, after which they would most likely be forced to liquidate part of the position at a highly unfavorable moment and suffer a loss.
Pompey's assassination had deprived Caesar of his ultimate public relations moment and pardoning his most ardent rival.
The most recent was in May 2012, when Washington Post columnist Mike Wise published a piece entitled " Fans who yell ‘ Oh !’ during national anthem are tainting a moment meant to unite Americans ".
As Max Velmans and Susan Schneider wrote in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness: " Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness, making conscious experience at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives.
At the moment, most community colleges award qualifications up to Level 3 in the Malaysian Qualifications Framework ( Certificate 3 ) in both the Skills sector ( Sijil Kemahiran Malaysia or the Malaysian Skills Certificate ) as well as the Vocational and Training sector but the number of community colleges that are starting to award Level 4 qualifications ( Diploma ) are increasing.
Probably the most infamous moment in the White Sox rivalry was in 1994 when the White Sox confiscated Albert Belle's corked bat, and the ensuing attempt by Indians pitcher Jason Grimsley to crawl through the Comiskey Park ( now U. S. Cellular Field ) clubhouse ceiling to retrieve it.
When Lee returns to Roper, he finds that most of Han's men have been defeated and rounded up but in a bittersweet moment, Roper also finds Tania's lifeless body lying amongst the wreckage.
His most famous moment occurred in the 1970 World Cup against Brazil, where he pulled off a stunning save from a goalbound header from Pelé, which is often regarded as arguably the greatest save ever.
For the most part, however, the powers of the Crown are exercised on a day-to-day basis by elected and appointed individuals, leaving the governor to perform the various ceremonial duties the sovereign otherwise carries out when in the country ; at such a moment, the governor removes him or herself from public, though the presence of the monarch does not affect the governor's ability to perform governmental roles.
He called the admission " the most devastating moment of my life.
More conventionally named roadie Jack Slaughter and road manager Dylan Ferrero rounded out the crew and provided most of the driving of the " tour bus ", a Cadillac with 10-year-old expired license plates and a nasty predilection for going into a coma at the most inconvenient moment ( but, according to Friedman, her talent lay in her ability to stop on a dime and pick up the change ).
The series has been described as the most controversial period in Australian cricket history, and voted the most important Australian moment by a panel of Australian cricket identities.
Perhaps the most dramatic moment in the war for Nova Scotia was when HMS Shannon escorted the captured American frigate USS Chesapeake into Halifax Harbour ( 1813 ).
Left-wing journalists outed Adolf Hitler's closest ally Ernst Röhm in the early 1930s, causing Brand to write, " when someone — as teacher, priest, representative, or statesman — would like to set in the most damaging way the intimate love contacts of others under degrading control — in that moment his own love-life also ceases to be a private matter and forfeits every claim to remain protected hence-forward from public scrutiny and suspicious oversight.
They represent the ideal audience — they sing about the most glorious moment of your life, thus tempting you to stay the hero or warrior they are portraying you as.
* Probabilistic moment of risk: An activity ( task ) in most real-life processes is not a continuous uniform process.

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