Because the rake angle Af at the tip of the knife is very much smaller ( or even negative ) when compared to the value of **yc for the major portion of the knife, a very rapid increase in cutting force with thickness will result.

`` Science In Action '', San Francisco's venerable television program, will be seen in Hong Kong this fall in four languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, Chiuchow and English, according to a tip from Dr. Robert C. Miller.

As the ion will travel from the tip at voltage V < sub > 1 </ sub > to some nominal ground potential, the speed at which the ion is travelling can be estimated by the energy transferred into the ion during ( or near ) ionisation.

Generally, the player will tip the caddy based on their performance during the round, with extra money given for exemplary work.

Frequently, one experiencing presque vu will say that they have something " on the tip of my tongue ".

The tip of the pen will then trace an ellipse if it is moved while keeping the string taut.

Laertes, enraged at the murder of his father, informs the king that he will further poison the tip of his sword so that a mere scratch would mean certain death.

The easiest way to understand the resulting stability is to say,, and positions are as stable as a ball balanced on the tip of a wedge would be stable: any disturbance will toss it out of equilibrium.

A GDP-bound tubulin subunit at the tip of a microtubule will fall off, though a GDP-bound tubulin in the middle of a microtubule cannot spontaneously pop out.

Because iron is not readily dissolved by molten solder, the plated tip is more durable than a bare copper one, though it will eventually wear out and need replacing.

In this situation, the voltage bias will cause electrons to tunnel between the tip and sample, creating a current that can be measured.

If there are channels through the middle of the wakeboard and not at the tip or tail, it will be a hard-edging wakeboard but will still release well through the wake, depending on the fin setup.

On a wakeboard with channels running through the tip and tail, the fins will hook better and the wakeboard will not release as well through the wake.

The farther out towards the tip and tail they are placed, the longer the wakeboard will stay hooked into the wake and it won ’ t release as well.

When the mosquito first lands on a potential host, her mouthparts will be enclosed entirely in this sheath, and she will touch the tip of the labium to the skin in various places.

The pole possessed a metal tip weighing 150 pounds, so the whole device will have weighed at least twice as much in order to preserve its balance.

For example, if the wire and the base material get too close, the current will rapidly increase, which in turn causes the heat to increase and the tip of the wire to melt, returning it to its original separation distance.

Today, Greenland, Antarctica, and the northern portions of Europe, Asia, and North America are situated such that a minor change in solar energy will tip the balance between year-round snow / ice preservation and complete summer melting.

Midwinter is using The Brain to organise his own intelligence agency and private army which will soon start an uprising in Soviet-occupied Latvia in an attempt to end Communism in the Eastern bloc and tip the balance of the Cold War in favour of the West.

Eventually the propagating thrust tip may reach another effective decollement layer and a composite fold structure will develop with characteristics of both fault-bend and fault-propagation folds.

The doctor will gently insert the tip of the cystoscope into the urethra and slowly glide it up into the bladder.

It has a red tip and is designed to trace out to 500 yards.

This round is designed to trace out to 875 yards and has a red tip ( orange when linked 4 to 1 with the M249 ).

There is no strong evidence to suggest that Candleston was likewise raised on the site of an earlier castle-ringwork, though the circular trace of the flimsy courtyard wall around the tip of the promontory may reflect an earlier structure.

However, the taxi driver's tip failed to help police trace the missing girl.

There was a brief interruption while one of O'Banion's men jerked out both his guns and threatened to shoot a waiter who was pestering him for a tip.

Only an occasional tip turned out to be a phony, and, like the police, Casey had made a point of running down all such suggestions and he did not hesitate this time.

It projects it with the tip foremost whereas other frogs flick out the rear part first, their tongues being hinged at the front.

* In a 1994 episode of the popular animated television series Beavis and Butt-head, the two eponymous characters, after watching a milk ad on television, set out to tip over a cow, only to result in Beavis being crushed when the cow falls on him.

Rail fins evolved into being and surged into popularity as riders ( Simon Anderson, most famously ) sought a solution to two major performance issues of a central " single " fin-both related to engagement of the foil: For one, a centrally-mounted fin is tilted up out of the water as the board is leaned over, and thus it loses more and more of its lift as the lean angle increases-if the lean angle is acute enough, the fin's tip can be the only area left in the water ; the tip may then rapidly stall and, having lost its lift, become disengaged from the water, leaving the board's bottom as the only control surface still operating.

When V is positive, electrons in the tip tunnel into empty states in the sample ; for a negative bias, electrons tunnel out of occupied states in the sample into the tip.

He won only 13 % of the northern vote, though that was just enough to tip Pennsylvania out of the Republican column.

describe the arabesque as a " vegetal design consisting of full ... and half palmettes an unending continuous pattern ... in which each leaf grows out of the tip of another.

Finally, Ralph discovered that leaning backwards in the water with ski tips up and poking out of the water at the tip was optimal.

However, this evolution also demanded more of the skiers effort to be put into rotating the skis onto edge, as opposed to forcing them to rotate tip in or out.

The back pressure resulting from the influx of water into the cnidocyte together with the opening of the capsule tip structure or operculum, triggers the forceful eversion of the cnidae tubule causing it to right itself as it comes rushing out of the cell with enough force to impale a prey organism.

The good news was some of those allocated forces were already forward at Milne Bay, where he was setting a trap with the veteran mid-East blooded 7th Australian Division, for he fully expected the Japanese would continue trans-coastal landings in an attempt to out flank Port Moresby, bringing ground forces in and around the point, in an end-around past the eastern tip of New Guinea and land on undefended beaches there.

Once a sufficient amount of yarn has been made, the spinner turns the wheel backward a short distance to unwind the spiral on the spindle, then turns it clockwise again, and winds the newly made yarn onto the spindle, finishing the wind-on by spiraling back out to the tip again to make another draw.

On his way out the door for the last time in the picture, the butler hands Egbert his hat and cane ( living up to Fields ' writing pseudonym ), and Egbert executes two of his time-honored " juggling " bits: bouncing the cane on the floor and catching it on the rebound ; then putting his top hat on and catching it on the tip of the cane instead.

A hollow-point bullet is an expanding bullet that has a pit or hollowed out shape in its tip, often intended to cause the bullet to expand upon entering a target in order to decrease penetration and disrupt more tissue as it travels through the target.

The slits that weakened the jacket left triangular shapes in the tip of the jacket, and these triangular sections of jacket would end up pointing out after expansion, leading to the " Talon " name.

After they passed the northern tip of Valcour Island, Arnold sent out Congress and Royal Savage to draw the attention of the British.

It is dense and waterproof, and on the underside the feathers are at right-angles to the skin, sticking straight out to begin with and curling at the tip.