Sentence examples for test mass from inspiring English sources

If the ring is moved until the force on the test mass is greatest, the distance between the test mass and the ring is not needed.

Long compared the maximum attractions of two rings upon a test mass hung from the arm of a torsion balance.

In one, conducted by the American physicist Riley Newman and his colleagues, a test mass hung on a torsion balance was moved around in a long hollow cylinder.

The cylinder approximates a complete gravitational enclosure and, allowing for a small correction because it is open at the ends, the force on the test mass should not depend on its location within the cylinder.

As an example of how Samsung makes money from memory chips in a down market, Mr. Hwang said the company was about to test mass production of a two-gigabit flash memory card for use in recording devices and digital cameras, among other applications.

In the other experiment, performed in Cambridge, Eng., by Y.T. Chen and associates, the attractions of two solid cylinders of different mass were balanced against a third cylinder so that only the separations of the cylinders had to be known; it was not necessary to know the distances of any from a test mass.

It must shield two metal cubes, known as test masses, from all external forces.

But only by sending LISA Pathfinder into a space, where the test masses can float freely, can the success of the engineering be tested.

Eötvös also suggested that the attraction of the Sun upon test masses could be compared with the inertial forces of Earth's orbital motion about the Sun.

Their experiments test mass-energy equivalence "directly" by comparing the difference in the rest-masses in a neutron capture reaction with the energy of the emitted γ-rays.

The test masses are suspended by stable superconducting magnetic levitation.