Sentence examples for surface of a ball from inspiring English sources

But if the surface is curved — for example, the surface of a ball or a doughnut — then the shortest distance... will also be along a curved path, and can thus be more complicated.

Counter-intuitively, forcing the boundary layer of air passing over the surface of a ball in flight to flip from smooth, laminar flow to turbulent flow improves the ball's aerodynamics no end.

The development of the organism is represented by the trajectory over the surface of a ball which passes through a series of phenotypic states as it rolls 'downhill' from conception to death.

The parameter introduced by Wetlaufer is equal to the protein surface normalized by the surface of a ball of equal volume.

Subsequent Opening- and Closing- operations are called the rolling ball operation [8], [18], as the resulting graph resembles the line where the surface of a ball is rolling over the intensity graph.

We use here the name "coefficient of compactness" [37] and its definition as the accessible surface area of a protein normalized by the surface area of a ball of equal volume (minimum possible surface area).

However, not much is known about the impact of the surface forms of a ball on its aerodynamics.

Their lack of togetherness was exposed in a Test against South Africa at Lord's in 1994 when Atherton was accused of ball tampering after being filmed placing dirt on the surface of a cricket ball.

When a hard cricket ball strikes them, it will leave a dent until sometimes a pitch that has been damp all over will resemble the dimpled surface of a golf ball.

In another passage, Mr. Casti writes: "If you place a loop on the surface of a soccer ball, as it shrinks it will always shrivel up into a point".

The simplest possible two-dimensional manifold is the surface of a soccer ball, which, to a topologist, is a sphere — even when it is stomped on, stretched, or crumpled.