Sentence examples for body of matter from inspiring English sources

It is, in effect, the resistance that a body of matter offers to a change in its speed or position upon the application of a force.

Centre of gravity, in physics, an imaginary point in a body of matter where, for convenience in certain calculations, the total weight of the body may be thought to be concentrated.

Surface atoms are bonded only to atoms in their own layer and to those directly beneath them, so they have fewer atoms holding them to the main body of matter, whether cluster or bulk, than do atoms in the interior.

The fact that another body of matter can spin faster should not undermine the perception of our innate speed.

The paintings envision the universe as morphing bodies of matter, where hue is almost sexual in its splattering of seed while being constrained in boxes and corners that are surprising merely by their presence.

The Samkhya school assumes the existence of two bodies, a temporal body and a body of "subtle" matter that persists after biological death.

The body of subtle matter consists of the higher functions of buddhi ("consciousness"), ahamkara ("I-consciousness"), manas ("mind as coordinator of sense impressions"), and prana ("breath," the principle of vitality).

The most important reason for this trend is that in a body of bulk matter almost all the particles are in the interior, while in a cluster most of the particles are on the surface.

The anterior border of the hippocampus was defined as the slice on which the inferior lateral ventricles appeared horizontally without any body of gray matter visible below them.

The battle Jack was about to engage in with the monster inhabiting the body of John Locke mattered in the way that the proper placement of X's and Y's matters in an equation — meaning on "Lost" always having been largely abstract, as if it were a product of flow charts rather than imagination.

Sameness of body requires identity of matter, and sameness of human being depends on continuity of life (as would the sameness of a certain oak tree from acorn to sapling to maturity); but sameness of person requires something else.