Sentence examples for overcome air from inspiring English sources

Reducing the energy needed to overcome air resistance added an estimated eight miles of electric range and 50 miles of extended range to the Volt.

In order to overcome air pollution in US cities, oil refiners and regulatory authorities have introduced the concept of reformulated gasoline which will overcome most of the pollution problems associated with gasoline use.

As these larger water droplets descend, coalescence continues, so that drops become heavy enough to overcome air resistance and fall as rain.

High frequency of muscle contractions is necessary to produce enough power to overcome air resistance and enable flight, especially for small-sized birds (Biewener 2011).

"Remember, at highway speed about 60percentt of energy is used overcoming air resistance," Mr. Hunter said.

Realising that over 80-90% of a cyclist's energy is expended overcoming air resistance, Burrows hit upon the wheeze of manufacturing the lightest racing bike frame possible out of something other than the traditional diamond-shaped wind-unfriendly tubing, using a one-piece shell that would hold both rider and wheels in the optimum position to minimise drag.

But now that it is too late, some sports federations are trying to figure out ways to overcome the air quality problem.

One is the need to pressurize the cabin so human lungs can overcome low air pressure — something other airplanes do with an engine.

Techniques used to overcome the air gap and stray capacitance was described.

The laboratory tests, which were conducted at the sediment tower-mixing facility using four different known distributions of sand in the range 50 700 μm, are described in detail to demonstrate the reliability of the ABS methods and to justify the adopted experimental strategies to overcome undesired air bubble interference with the ABS due to injected sand.

At the end of this phase, the engine thrust is minimized just to overcome the air drag without introducing acceleration.