Sentence examples for portion of a sphere from inspiring English sources

The motion of the disk circumference prescribes a portion of a sphere.

There are many ways of projecting a portion of a sphere, such as the surface of the Earth, onto a plane.

If a lens were perfect and the object were a single point of monochromatic light, then, as noted above, the light wave emerging from the lens would be a portion of a sphere centred about the ideal image point, lying in the paraxial image plane at a height above the axis given by the Lagrange theorem.

"The concave MIRROR curves away just like a crescent moon, The scooped out portion of a sphere, the inside of a spoon.

Each cluster represents a portion of a sphere in the multidimensional space of the peptide where the radius is the cutoff distance used for clustering.

Let P be a hemispherical part of a sphere Q.

It is an ovoid joint the male element of which could be described as a portion of a slightly deformed sphere.

The eyeball is not a simple sphere but can be viewed as the result of fusing a small portion of a small, strongly curved sphere with a large portion of a large, not so strongly curved sphere (Figure 1).

Gelfand et al. in [3] proposed the use of volumetric descriptors, that is the estimation of the volume portion inscribed by a sphere centered at a point of the surface.

So, I'm going to try to find the volume of a portion of the unit sphere -- -- that lies above the horizontal plane, z equals one over root two.

Polysaccharide sorption to ferrihydrite may account for a portion of the outer sphere complexes, if it is occurring, due to increased peak area with no shift at 1080 and 1040 cm−1 at pH 9 compared to pH 6.