Sentence examples for vibrate about from inspiring English sources

There can be no thermal expansion for harmonic approximation, the atoms vibrate about their equilibrium positions symmetrically whatever be the amplitude.

A system of N masses linked sequentially by springs in tension is allowed to vibrate about an equilibrium configuration both radially and transversely upon a smooth turntable.

Microwave, a kind of electromagnetic wave with a very short wavelength, excites polar molecules to cause them to rotate and vibrate back and forth rapidly: e.g., water molecules vibrate about 2.45 × 109 times per second upon microwave irradiation.

In reality, however, crystals are not perfectly periodic; atoms vibrate about their mean position, and there may be disorder of various types, such as mosaicity, dislocations, various point defects, and heterogeneity in the conformation of crystallized molecules.

In the case of Lucas's compressor, it vibrates about 600 times a second.

On one side, in an apple orchard, the wings of hundreds of bees vibrated about their apiary.

In a longitudinal wave, each particle of matter vibrates about its normal rest position and along the axis of propagation, and all particles participating in the wave motion behave in the same manner, except that there is a progressive change in phase of vibration i.e., each particle completes its cycle of reaction at a later time.

The Sweco separator is a screening device that vibrates about its centre of mass.

Wet ion-exchange resins (ϱP=1.17 g/cm3, d=0.0435, 0.0401, 0.0334 or 0.0290 cm) were suspended, while vibrating about a fixed position, by either symmetrically or asymmetrically oscillating water.

Prior to melting, the atoms in a solid have restricted molecular motion and are confined to vibrating about their mean positions within the lattice/morphology structure of the solid.

So he and Mr. Boreyko bought an inexpensive loudspeaker from RadioShack, fixed a lotus leaf to it, allowed water to condense within the leaf's surface and then made it vibrate at about 100 hertz.