Sentence examples for collision rules from inspiring English sources

One such supplement involves Spinoza's attempt to extend the range of application of Descartes' collision rules.

One of the most problematic instances involves the relational compatibility of the fourth and fifth collision rules.

Descartes' collision rules are limited in scope to the special case of bodies moving along a single line.

By the time Leibniz introduced the principle of continuity, the defects of Descartes's collision rules were already widely acknowledge, even by his staunchest defenders.

The context of the collision rules also supports the view that the motions of the impacting bodies are determined from an external reference frame, rather than from the local translation of their contiguous neighborhoods.

In short, Descartes' reciprocity of transfer thesis underdetermines the outcome of his bodily collisions, as well as the capacity to apply, and make predictions from, the Cartesian collision rules.

A simple collision rule is introduced in order to describe the momentum transport from moving boundaries to the fluid.

While obviously contradicting common experience, the fourth collision rule does nicely demonstrate the scalar nature of speed, as well as the primary importance of quantity of motion, in Cartesian dynamics.

Even if there is reciprocity of transfer between a body and its neighborhood, it is still not possible to determine which collision rule the impact will fall under, or if the bodies will even collide at all, unless some reference frame is referred to that can compute the motion of both bodies relative to one another.

Chris Iannetta's fear of violating the new home-plate collision rule may have prevented the Angels catcher from making the catch and tag on the game-ending play that gave the Dodgers a 5-4 victoverover the Angels Tuesday night.

But like the collision rule for home plate, which was instituted two years ago, and the expansion of instant replay, which caused some confusion about rules governing the transfer of balls from glove to hand, there will probably be some growing pains associated with the slide rule, Scioscia said.