Sentence examples for falling sheet from inspiring English sources

Small displacements in the surface of a falling sheet of water may be amplified by the Helmholtz instability mechanism, and naturally occurring feedback in a waterfall fountain can lead to sustained periodic oscillations.

Using a computer to model the flow of air around a falling sheet, they found that the sheet also experiences a lift force proportional to the speed of the sheet times the rate at which it is turning.

The fluttering, looping, and tumbling motions of falling sheets of paper and other flat objects have fascinated thinkers since the 19th century, when famed Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell studied falling cards.

The mechanism that relates the mid latitude plasma irregularities to its source (e.g. MSTID) is the so-called Perkins instability (Perkins 1973; Miller 1997) which takes the form of rising and falling sheets of ionisation when a north-south electric field is present in addition to the east-west field.

It's heavy snow falling on sheet ice.

When he was a bored Connecticut art student in the 70s, a falling ice sheet shattered the windshield of Vicino's car, the bad omen convincing him it was time to try his luck in California.

Tropical rain was falling in sheets.

Yet by the time I'd walked down to Dowall Hall farm, the rain was falling in sheets, so I paused under the shelter of a venerable sycamore and contemplated Parkhouse Hill.

If you look up suddenly you may see a streak of lightning: then a man and a woman safe inside a runabout, with rain falling in sheets on the wind shield.

Use safety pins, elastics, pegs or paper clip clamps (the larger the better! ) to connect sheets and blankets together to keep the sheets from falling down. ) to connect sheets and blankets together to keep the sheets from falling down.

Overall, Cryosat finds all three regions to be losing ice, with the average elevation of the full ice sheet falling annually by almost 2cm.