Sentence examples for revolve about from inspiring English sources

The main elements revolve about volume, velocity and variety.

May 3. A celestial mechanics problem from Kern Kenyon: Consider Puzzle Corner as two large-equal-mass points that revolve about their center of mass.

That is, they revolve about the axis of the screw (or bolt) equidistantly from the center while spirals expand out from the axis.

From his observations of Mercury and Venus, Schiaparelli concluded that those planets rotate on their axes at the same rate at which they revolve about the Sun, thus always keeping one side facing the Sun.

The principal planets in the solar system revolve about the Sun in nearly the same plane as Earth's orbit, and their movements will therefore be projected onto the celestial sphere nearly, but seldom exactly, on the ecliptic.

Discovered in 1971 in the constellation Cygnus, this binary consists of a blue supergiant and an invisible companion 8.7 times the mass of the Sun that revolve about one another in a period of 5.6 days.

My own revolved about secrecy and privacy.

The hyperbola when revolved about either axis forms a hyperboloid.

Perhaps the most exciting find was the discovery of four moons revolving about Jupiter.

The hyperbola when revolved about either axis forms a hyperboloid (q.v.).

This deduction led Aristarchus to speculate that Earth revolves about the Sun rather than the other way around.