Sentence examples for exerting a force from inspiring English sources
The bead's curved surface, acting like a lens, bent the laser light, exerting a force that kept it at the center of the beam.
Because outside the birds are singing, the trees are about to burst into bloom, and yet his office, where he's worked for years, seems to be some sort of black hole, exerting a force field so powerful it swallows all light.
The "vertical merry-go-round" worked on the same principle as a bicycle wheel — each of the spokes pressed into the rim, exerting a force that gave it enormous strength, says Rich Weingardt, a structural engineer who wrote a biography of Ferris.
Next, the team carefully stretched the miniature rope by exerting a force on the tip, enabling them to measure the force at which it broke.
Solenoids come in many shapes and sizes, and are capable of exerting a force from less than an ounce to several pounds.
The presence of conduit walls exerting a force on the erupting gas, the interaction of gas with solid particles within the flow, and the interaction of the infrasound waves with the crater walls around the vent (Bull and Buurman 2013) can be approximated by a dipole radiation model.
You meet someone at a party, and you find that their attitudes exert a force on yours.
The air from the compressor exerts a force on a tank of hydraulic fluid that, in turn, transmits this force to the bottom of the lifting piston.
The rotor is turned by steam impinging against attached vanes or blades on which it exerts a force in the tangential direction.
For viscous material, there is laminar (slow, smooth, parallel) flow; one must exert a force to maintain motion because of internal frictional resistance to flow, called the viscosity.
