Sentence examples for point of inertia from inspiring English sources

Dramatically, it's mellow to the point of inertia.

Tonal harmony had been explored, expanded and chromatically thickened, many composers felt, to the point of inertia.

The court and legal system is slow to the point of inertia due to almost non-existent case management.

Jack Huston does well as the malevolent doppelganger in correspondent shoes, an ingratiating sidle and baby beam, but as his prey Laurence Fox takes containment to the point of inertia.

Some, like his bowl-and-drapery still life, are static to the point of inertia, until one studies the small variations of light that sensuously articulate the objects in space.

In the parlance of economic theory, they were not rational utility maximisers but, in Herbert Simon's term, "satisficers" – opting for what was good enough, rather than becoming confused to the point of inertia in front of Monstromart's ranges of products.

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With respect to the axis through the point of contact, the torque is equal to RFp, giving rise to an angular acceleration α given by Ipα = RFp, where Ip is the moment of inertia about the point-of-contact axis and can be determined by applying equation (80) relating moments of inertia about parallel axes (Ip = I + MR2).

Weyl (1949a, 103) remarks "… therefore mensuration need not depend on clocks and rigid bodies but … light signals and mass points moving under the influence of inertia alone will suffice".

Goodman showed that inductive inference only works in the context of the right set of predicates, and Fodor demonstrates much the same point for the common sense law of inertia.

For example, we saw in §B.4.4 that the moment of inertia of a point-mass a distance from the axis of rotation is given by.