Sentence examples for proportional force from inspiring English sources

It says many individuals are reported injured in the back, raising serious questions about whether police are using proportional force and are discharging their firearms only as a last resort, as required by Bahrain's new police code of conduct.

He cited the concept of "just war" (war waged only as a last resort or in self-defence, with "proportional" force and sparing civilians where possible), but said that nuclear proliferation and failed states made it necessary to think about just war "in new ways".

The educational and cognitive sciences have given intensive consideration to naive beliefs as well as misconceptions in physics (Bao et al. 2002; Kautz et al. 2002, 2004, 2005a,[b]) such as the common misconception speed proportional force rather than acceleration proportional force (Bao et al. 2002; Halloun and Hestenes 1987; McCloskey 1983; Rebello and Zollman 2004).

There's no force sensor we can apply in order to detect the effects of this motion for a simple reason: everything that exerts a force on our bodies, causing us to accelerate, is also exerting a proportional force on the Earth, causing it to accelerate at the exact same rate.

McKiernan said he issued his orders Sept. 2, to reinforce the need for using proportional force in reacting to attacks by the Taliban or other extremist groups.

According to this hypothesis, which was proposed to account for the discrepancies in the galaxy rotation curve, which are more commonly attributed to dark matter, acceleration ceases to be linearly proportional to force at very low accelerations.

Because this behavior appeared to be a nonlinear function of length, we guessed that it might be more or less linearly proportional to force (we do not have enough data to prove it either way).

Disparity between polyp diameter and muscle cross-sectional area (proportional to force) is both phylogenetically structured and conserved, indicating that closely related species require similar retraction mechanics.

We model electronic stopping by a velocity-proportional friction force F=n k v, where n is the atomic number density of Au and v is the atom velocity.

The sensitivity analysis was carried out using non-linear dynamic analysis with time integration and using pushover analysis with distribution of forces proportional to the inertial forces of the structure.

Ohnesorge number, Z, is proportional to viscous force to inertial force with surface tension.