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When the pendulum swings away from its normal plumb position due to sudden deceleration or rollover, a pawl is engaged, the reel locks and the strap restrains the belted occupant in position.
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When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting equilibrium position, it is subject to a restoring force due to gravity that will accelerate it back toward the equilibrium position.
When a Foucault pendulum is suspended at the equator, the plane of oscillation remains fixed relative to Earth.
When the disk is turned, the plane of oscillation changes just like the one of a Foucault pendulum at latitude.
When the paddle is pressed to the right, a horizontal pendulum is set into motion which rocks against the contact points, sending a series of short pulses ( dits ) at a speed which is controlled by the position of the pendulum weight.
When the paddle is pressed from the left, a horizontal pendulum at the opposite end of the lever is set into motion, intermittently closing a set of contacts, sending a series of short pulses ( dits ) at a speed that is controlled by the position of the pendulum weight.
When the board rotates more than 90 degrees and then returns to its original position over the course of the slide it is called a pendulum.
When polarization occurs, there is a tendency for the opposing sides of an argument to make increasingly disagreeable statements, via the " pendulum effect ".
When the pendulum swings back again, the other arm catches the wheel, pushes it back and releases the first arm and so on.
When the pendulum lifted one arm far enough its pallet would release the escape wheel.
When the arc of swing of the pendulum was large enough, the vane crossed the groove and swung free on the other side.
When a neutral density filter ( a darkened lens — typically gray ) is placed in front of, say, the right eye the pendulum seems to take on an elliptical orbit, appearing closer as it swings toward the right and farther as it swings toward the left, so that if it were to theoretically be viewed from above, it would appear to be revolving counterclockwise.
When an escape wheel tooth is resting against one of these faces, its force is directed through the anchor's pivot axis, so it gives no impulse to the pendulum, allowing it to swing freely.
When asked to participate in Konrad Fischer ’ s museum exhibition " Konzeption / Conception " ( 1969 ) at Museum Morsbroich, Polke suggested he make a film in which he scratches himself and uses a pendulum.
When calculating the period of a simple pendulum, the small-angle approximation for sine is used to allow the resulting differential equation to be solved easily by comparison with the differential equation describing simple harmonic motion.
When and swings
When Blanche sees Jane's sinister mood swings beginning, she tries to talk to her sister about her decision.
When a bombardier beetle is threatened by a predator or an offensive invader of any kind, at the appropriate point of approach, the bombardier beetle swings its tail end around, and hot, noxious fluid heated to is explosively released from twin combustion tubes into the face of the enemy.
When he drank, he had wild mood swings, ranging from euphoria to frenzy.
When very close to threshold, the smallest perturbation is able to cause huge swings in the output laser power.
* Three sets of triple swings: When censing the Most Blessed Sacrament
* Three sets of double swings: When censing images, relics, and other sacramentals, also when censing the celebrant.
* Two sets of double swings: When censing a Deacon.
* One set of double swings: When censing a Sub-Deacon.
* Three sets of single swings: When censing the congregation
; Hip-checking: When a player drops to a near-crouching stance and swings his hips toward an opposing player, sending the opponent off balance, often falling to the ice.
When needle swings round to the sector starts to block the sensor, ignition is cut to the front two cylinders thereby reducing power such that the motorcycle can not accelerate further.
When Beet swings the axe, he is capable of letting out a condensed form of lighting tengeki that can cut through hard boulder.
When it swings to allow watercraft passage, the far end comes to a resting point on a stabilizing pylon.
When Boucher responded to an elbow by slashing Siebert over the head, the latter player responded with repeated wild swings of his own stick at Boucher, injuring him.
" When a batter swings and misses he will proclaim, " big hack, no contact.
When Charly kills an enemy ( normally two tail swings ) it will eventually respawn at its starting point.
When the hook is attached to a post or pole, the ring can actually be swung behind the hook, catching on the hook as it swings back.
When and away
When erosion threatened the foundation of their home in Harbert, Paula Sandburg planted grapevines and arranged the snow fences which helped hold the sands away.
When he was in the war, he was in Law or Supplies or something like that, and an old buddy of his told me he would come down on Sundays to the Pentagon and read the citations for medals -- just like the one we sent in for Trig -- and go away with a real glow.
When he felt the side of his head, his fingers came away covered with blood.
When the boat had touched, the weaker ones and the two wounded men had been lifted out and carried away by the soldiers.
When his arm came up I ducked away but it caught me on the side of the neck, watering my eyes, and I backed off to cough.
When Jones too drew away, she returned to a thorn bush in the neck of land running into the gully, crouched low and waited as before.
When you stand before the barrel-vaulted colonnade you have the impression that the statue at the end is at a considerable distance, yet it is actually only a few feet away.
When that fear has been removed by faith in Jesus Christ, when we know that He is our Savior, that He has paid our debt with His blood, that He has met the demands of God's justice and thus has turned His wrath away -- when we know that, we have peace with God in our hearts ; ;
And when she returned from taking her guests back to New York she had said, `` All they talked about was Harvie Harvie this, Harvie that When they know the truth will they drop away from me, will I become a nothing ''??
When he finally did he had to duck his head quickly away as the pitch came in.
When they are fully developed, she regurgitates them and they hop away from her mouth as miniature adults.
When the younger brother wanted to look away from the human corpses and animal carcasses scattered everywhere, Heigo forbade him to do so, instead encouraging Akira to face his fears by confronting them directly.
When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad.
" When he sits down to write ," Emerson wrote, " all his genius leaves him ; he gives you the shells and throws away the kernel of his thought.
When he is away, his two brothers, Vili and Vé, rule Asaland from Asagarth.
: When woe fades away like the mist of the heath.
When he had finished speaking, a member of the audience stood up and suggested that Bavaria should break away from Prussia and form a separate nation with Austria.
When all the individual segments are used, the knife may be thrown away, or, more often, refilled with a replacement blade.
When she was half a mile away, Baralong ran up a signal flag indicating that she was going to rescue Nicosians crew.
When the first meeting of the Fourth Duma was convened in late 1912, only one out of six Bolshevik deputies, Matvei Muranov, ( another one, Roman Malinovsky, was later exposed as an Okhrana secret police agent ) voted to break away from the Menshevik faction within the Duma on 15 December 1912.
When machine translation ( also known as mechanical translation ) failed to yield accurate translations right away, automated processing of human languages was recognized as far more complex than had originally been assumed.
When one of these is found, it is necessary to move the search away from it if the experimenter is looking solely for local minima and transition structures.
When the Dictator was away from Rome, the magister equitum usually remained behind to administer the city.
When ITV did return, its first evening schedule included a special " catch-up " edition of Coronation Street, in which storylines which would have taken place during the strike were explained away in the form of a narrative chat between Len Fairclough and Bet Lynch.
When Gail refused to go along with the plan, Joe sailed away and in the attempt, drowned for real, leaving Gail to be charged with his murder.
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