Sentence examples for laws of falling from inspiring English sources

Nagel, himself, took as a paradigm example of homogeneous reduction, the reduction of the Galilean laws of falling bodies to Newtonian mechanics.

In "The Laws of Falling Bodies" (2009), the opening work, the bodies continually going to the ground and clasping hands and dipping one another baptismally expressed a stricken community.

His formulation of (circular) inertia, the law of falling bodies, and parabolic trajectories marked the beginning of a fundamental change in the study of motion.

In the midst of his busy life he continued his research on motion, and by 1609 he had determined that the distance fallen by a body is proportional to the square of the elapsed time (the law of falling bodies) and that the trajectory of a projectile is a parabola, both conclusions that contradicted Aristotelian physics.

Galileo here treated for the first time the bending and breaking of beams and summarized his mathematical and experimental investigations of motion, including the law of falling bodies and the parabolic path of projectiles as a result of the mixing of two motions, constant speed and uniform acceleration.

The Fed continues to make the terrible mistake of confusing technology-driven efficiency (i.e., the Moore's Law curve of falling prices) with deflation.

The new laws reflect an era of falling crime, budget crunches and the skyrocketing cost of running prisons.

With this ruling, companies that capture, use and store data must abide by specific laws or face the consequences of falling out of compliance.

All are most peculiar objects: brusquely handmade incarnations of a cerebral realm in which the laws of physics fall away.

As mentioned above, the mechanisms of clocks involve the elasticity of springs, the weight of pendulum bobs and the rigidity of gear wheels and the law of fall presupposes a tendency for heavy objects to fall 'downwards'downwards

When examining rising and falling bodies, he recognized that their behavior reveals a different quantity, derived from Galileo's law of fall, which is the product of mass and velocity squared (mv²).