Sentence examples for a resisting force from inspiring English sources

This conception of air as an assisting medium rather than a resisting force persisted for centuries, even though in the 16th century it was recognized that the energy of motion of a projectile was imparted to it by the catapulting device.

The calculation of the inhibition ratio may not consider an individual representation as "an originally aggressive force [angreifende Kraft], but only as a resisting force [widerstehende Kraft]", since, as we saw above, representations can on Herbart's view only be considered to be force-like insofar as they resist one another, not "in themselves" (SW V: 285).

To understand the dynamic of a landslide, Turner said, you have to understand that hillsides are held together by two competing forces: a driving force that wants to push the hillside down and a resisting force that holds the hillside up.

A cable attached to a chest harness at approximately the T5 level was held with an electromagnet and served as a resisting force.

Descartes conserves the joint quantity of motion by equipping the stationary object C with a resisting force sufficient to deflect the moving body B, a solution that does uphold the quantity of motion in cases where C is at rest.

It has a gear assembly that amplifies the rotational inertias developed in the gears and generates a resultant resisting force that is proportional to the relative acceleration at the end terminals of the GMD.

A new average virtual work integral form is proposed for the HFGMC method which allows for the definition of a generalized internal resisting force vector along with its corresponding symmetric stiffness matrix.

Where FRP strip is a line, the resisting force by bond failure, T f3 turns out lowest up to 500 mm in bond length.

Science and metaphysics join hands in its investigation because the cosmos involves an intelligible as well as an empirical side: humans are unqualified parts of nature; mind and body are energetic interacting presences; rationality depends on matter; freedom in nature is just a question of resisting force; and so forth.

Elasticity is a length-dependent resisting force that increases more the muscles and tendons are stretched [ 27].

In an electromagnetic damper, the resisting force is created by electrical currents induced in a copper plate moving in a strong magnetic field (see damping).