Sentence examples for freely falling from inspiring English sources

By contrast, a freely-falling trajectory is a freely falling trajectory in any coordinate system; it is only the decomposition of it into its inertial and gravitational parts that will be different in different coordinate systems.

By the same token, however, the accelerations relative to this frame cannot be known to be the "true accelerations"; they may be accelerations relative to a freely-falling trajectory just in case the center of mass is itself freely falling, in which case they have to be added to the gravitational acceleration of the center of mass before we can arrive at the true accelerations.

For example, as Einstein put it, a freely falling man would not feel his own weight.

Terminal velocity, steady speed achieved by an object freely falling through a gas or liquid.

Gravity is measured by the acceleration that it gives to freely falling objects.

The acceleration of a rolling ball, like the acceleration of a freely falling object, is independent of its mass.

Traders here said stock futures, which are allowed to trade freely, fell by more than 6percentt, suggesting that the broader market could have fallen further without intervention.

This season, with the plot twisting to revisit the historical Windsor's behavior toward the Third Reich, the audience sees that he, after renouncing the crown, freely fell into supporting Hitler.

Briquettes were released from a vertical height of 2 m andallowed to freely fall onto a concrete floor.

A second type of mission would be to release small solar probes which would freely fall into the sun and thus provide in situ information about its corona.

However, the second pitch angle of 23° was picked based on previous research to match the pitch of a maple seed as it freely falls and rotates (Lentink et al. 2009).