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Tilting trains are meant to help reduce the effects of centrifugal force on the human body, but they can still cause nausea as they do not reduce the Coriolis effect on balancing systems.
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Tilting and trains
Tilting trains are designed to counteract this discomfort.
Tilting trains operating at or more on upgraded track include the Acela Express in the USA, the X 2000 in Sweden, the Pendolinos and Super Voyagers on the West Coast Main Line in Great Britain, and the ICE TD in Germany ( the latter two being diesel powered ).
Tilting trains were not new and used passive tilt, however not common, and not widely implemented.
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* ICN: InterCity Tilting Train Same kind of product as IC, but using tilting trains instead of standard / double-decked trains
Tilting trains use accelerometers and gyroscopes to calculate the required tilt.
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The RABDe 500 ( often nicknamed ICN for Intercity-Neigezug, German for Intercity Tilting Train, the train category for which these trains are used ), is a Swiss passenger train which was introduced in 2000, in time for Expo. 02 held in western Switzerland in 2002.
Tilting trains have been developed for achieving greater comfort for passengers, so higher speeds are possible on curvy tracks.
* Tilting passenger trains:
Tilting trains rock into the curve to tilt the passenger cars the same way that a superelevated track would tilt them inward.
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Tilting and are
His descendants are portrayed as early settlers in the north eastern United States in Madeleine L ' Engles 3rd book in the Time Quartet series A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Tilting pad bearings are used as radial bearings for supporting and locating shafts in compressors.
Tilting level, dumpy level or automatic level are terms used to refer to types of leveling instruments as used in surveying to measure height differences over larger distances.
Note that although Many Waters was published approximately eight years after A Swiftly Tilting Planet, it takes place several years earlier, when Sandy and Dennys are in high school and Meg is in college.
Tilting the keel, however, greatly reduces its lift, so canting keels are usually combined with a retractable centerboard or daggerboard that is deployed when the keel is tilted, and retracted ( to reduce drag ) when the keel is straight.
According to Korail's plans in 2009, travel times on the Yeongdong Line are to be reduced after 2013 with the future series version of the Tilting Train Express.
Tilting and help
* Tilting of the head of the bed to an angle of roughly 30 degrees can also help reduce symptoms.
Tilting and on
* Tilting train photography on Flickr
A Tilting train | tilting British Rail Class 390 | Class 390 Pendolino on the WCML ( introduced since 2002 )
Tilting back his head, he could look up through the slave's eyes to see the master-unit, with himself inside, maintaining the same attitude on its complex suspension.
Fogo Harbour and Tilting Harbour were the first settlements on the island.
Tilting Harbour on Fogo Island is a National Cultural Landscape District of Canada and is Newfoundland and Labrador's first Provincial Heritage District.
* Tilting train, a train with a mechanism enabling increased speed on regular railroad tracks
* Tilting, Newfoundland and Labrador, a town on Fogo Island
* Careening: Tilting a ship on its side, usually when beached, to clean or repair the hull below the water line.
* Tilting theory in mathematics, including tilting modules, tilted algebras, tilting functors, and so on.
: Tilting the bike completely forward on the front wheel while rolling, standing both feet on the front pegs ; holding the bike in front of you, by the underside of the backwheel or holding an axle peg.
Barney has also produced or co-directed short films on the photographers Jan Groover ( Jan Groover: Tilting at Space, 1994 ) and Horst P. Horst ( Horst, 1988 ).
Tilting and human
* In A Swiftly Tilting Planet, a family, descended from the legendary Madoc, whose decisions determine the course of human history.
Tilting and can
Through kything, humans can be together inside a subcellular mitochondrion, as seen in A Wind in the Door, or in communication despite being centuries apart, as seen in A Swiftly Tilting Planet.
Tilting and systems
Tilting systems had been introduced in service by the Spanish Talgo, but this system was " passive " and took some time to respond to curves.
Tilting and .
In Harry Turtledove's second novel of the Worldwar series, Worldwar: Tilting the Balance ( p. 95 ), British Prime Minister Winston Churchill speaks of defending " the green hills of Earth " against an invasion by reptilian aliens.
* Freese J and Powell B Tilting at Twindmills: rethinking sociological responses to behavioral genetics.
Tilting of the BO < sub > 6 </ sub > octahedra reduces the coordination of an undersized A cation from 12 to as low as 8.
Tilting the handle with the fingers, wrist, and / or elbow motion causes the differential movement in the lines.
Tilting the switch the opposite direction causes the mercury to move away from that set of contacts, thus breaking that circuit.
The magazine's founder is Charles Peters, who started the magazine in 1969 and continues to write the " Tilting at Windmills " column in each issue.
Tilting is unique for its Irish culture and, some people say, its Irish dialect.
The Irish Cemetery in Tilting may be the oldest in North America.
Local oral history indicates that Tilting was originally a French harbour before becoming a venue of Irish settlement.
The first Irish settled in Tilting in the 1750s, and uniquely for Newfoundland, Tilting evolved into an exclusively Irish and Catholic town by the 1780s.
Tilting is stopped when the material begins to slide in bulk, and the angle of the tilt is measured.
The original blue dust jacket by Ellen Raskin was replaced with new art by Leo and Diane Dillon with the publication of A Swiftly Tilting Planet in 1978.
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