Sentence examples for speed of fall from inspiring English sources

There, according to his first biographer, Vincenzo Viviani (1622 1703), Galileo demonstrated, by dropping bodies of different weights from the top of the famous Leaning Tower, that the speed of fall of a heavy object is not proportional to its weight, as Aristotle had claimed.

As the bird flies to the ground, it must be constantly aware of its height above the ground, the orientation of its body axis relative to the ground, deviations in flight direction resulting from air currents, and its speed of fall.

Nasution and Emmanuel [147] used the projection histograms of segmented human body silhouette as the main feature vector posture classification and used the speed of fall to differentiate real fall incident and an event where a person is simply lying without falling.

This is the principle that Newton tested by constructing pendulums with wooden boxes as their bobs, which he would fill with different materials in order to see whether those differences made a difference to the speed of falling; they didn't.

In less than a minute, it plummeted another 200 points—a rate of decline that traders said was unprecedented.The speed of the fall was caused by a tabulation delay.

If the rise of Bernard B. Kerik under the mentorship of Rudolph W. Giuliani was meteoric, the speed of his fall was breathtaking.

But the speed of the fall reflects panic, and panic might be an opportunity.All the more important, in the circumstances, that we look for signs of hope.

The pillar was originally going to be 100 feet tall, but his team realized that the speed of the fall would kill him.

First, Elliot flies, using majestic bat-like wings to soar above the trees and through a valley, which lends a piquant thrill to the frolics of boy and dragon through the wild Pete cannonballs off the edge of a cliff the way other kids jump into a swimming pool, and Elliot swoops down, faster than the speed of free fall, to catch him on his broad and plush back.

The rate of fluidization of the feedstock with the particulate composition 1…3 mm in the reaction zone W f = 0.5 m/s (the speed of free fall W f = 1 m/s).

The former was based on Aristotelian Archimedean fluid dynamics and held that the speed of gravitational fall in a fluid medium was proportional to the excess of a body's specific weight over that of the medium, whereby in a vacuum, bodies would fall with speeds in proportion to their specific weights.