Fantasy, by contrast, enables writers to confront the terrors of our time by way of parabolic indirection. |
|
The top of the cylinder was capped with a parabolic radio dish, which appeared to be made of cloth supported by a series of metal ribs. |
|
Even with the collimation provided by a parabolic sending station, my gut feeling is that the physics is very much against it working. |
|
One step required knowing the location of the centre of gravity of any segment of a parabolic conoid. |
|
Flown on a parabolic trajectory, this airplane can produce periods of microgravity for some twenty seconds. |
|
Further, his ball flight has gotten lower and more parabolic, things he says the Nike ball helps with. |
|
A primary concave parabolic mirror converges the light to one focus of a concave ellipsoidal mirror. |
|
Newton favoured comets having parabolic orbits, but Halley believed that elliptical orbits might exist. |
|
The parabolic reflectors focus their respective wavelengths onto mechanical devices that act like shutters to optically modulate the beams. |
|
Such curves are not characterized by parabolic functions, indicating that hydrogen-bonding interactions are strongly anharmonic. |
|
The ejecta blanket hits at a parabolic shape, similar in appearance to the dark parabolas seen around impact craters on Venus. |
|
All humps are made of asphaltic material and have parabolic shapes with variable heights and widths. |
|
According to officials, the parabolic curve dome, with its supportless span spread over 30 by 45 metres, is an architectural marvel. |
|
In John, although there are a few parabolic sayings, there are no parables comparable with the synoptic tradition. |
|
The two main parabolic arches of the bridge create two continuous, tilted, tied arches as the support spans for this unique steel structure. |
|
Among lawful sequences of events are Galileo's laws of free fall and the parabolic trajectory of projectiles. |
|
As we shall see, narrative parables are generally considered to be the most distinctive form of parabolic teaching used by Jesus. |
|
They both dived over the railing in magnificent, parabolic swan dives befitting Olympic champion divers. |
|
Any object with a parabolic or hyperbolic trajectory moves so fast that it will never return. |
|
With increasing quantiles, the quadratic coefficient became more negative, implying increased concavity of the inverted parabolic function. |
|
|
Although similar parabolic relationships were observed in two other tropical avifaunas, it may be premature to assess the generality of that relationship. |
|
Palmated antlers of moose may serve as a parabolic reflector of sounds. |
|
Radio telescopes form pictures of the universe using parabolic dishes to sense radio energy from stars and other deep space objects. |
|
In a first for a TV series, the actors were filmed on parabolic flights to simulate zero gravity conditions so that they really are floating weightless in some of the scenes. |
|
Round or parabolic tank tops act for the radar signals like a parabolic mirror. |
|
He says it is quite simple to find the instructions needed to build a parabolic or laser microphone on the internet. |
|
The directivity of the feedhorns is added to that of the parabolic reflector. |
|
A dual feedhorn is used to feed the transmitters energy into the parabolic reflector with the necessary polarizations. |
|
Here at home, Canadian Wheat Board offer prices have also shot higher in parabolic fashion over the past month to all-time record highs. |
|
The dimensions of the parabolic antenna will depend on the choice of bit rate. |
|
Engineers use parabolic curved reflectors to concentrate solar rays on a receiver. |
|
The Aura I is made up of a white upper parabolic reflector made of fibreglass positioned at the top of the lighting column. |
|
He explained the laws of formation of images in spherical and parabolic mirrors, and the causes of spherical aberration and a magnification produced by lenses. |
|
Like the tardigrade, this earthquake-resistant house is all curves, from the oval floor plan to the dual parabolic and catenary arches of its profile. |
|
Directional information was sometimes investigated with directional microphones and parabolic reflectors. |
|
Years ago, the proprietor developed a novel method to cast backyard satellite television dishes in a one-shot process that results in exceptionally smooth parabolic antennas. |
|
The Helix antenna is such a device, as well as some radiators used for parabolic dishes. |
|
He also studied spherical and parabolic mirrors, and understood how refraction by a lens will allow images to be focused and magnification to take place. |
|
Except in offset antennas, the satellite position is referred to the parabolic reflector symmetry axis. |
|
By 1604 he concluded that projectiles travel along parabolic trajectories. |
|
|
To minimize wave reflection in the tank, a parabolic wave dissipater was built. |
|
Spoiled parabolic antennas produce a narrow beam in one dimension and a relatively wide beam in the other. |
|
Many different forms have been given to the heads of projectiles, as flat, ogival, hemispherical, conoidal, parabolic, blunt trifaced, etc. |
|
The structure is separated into four white concrete parabolic vaults, which together resemble a bird on the ground perched for flight. |
|
However, the most outstanding feature of the institution is the chapel, on a floor plan in the shape of a Greek cross, with a single nave and transept and a roof with a parabolic cross-section reinforced by transverse arches. |
|
George Chakravarthi at the Site Gallery, Sheffield NORTHERN SPORT The sporting highlight of the week has been David Beckham's beautiful parabolic free kick into the top right corner of the Zalaegerszegi net at Old Trafford. |
|
The parabolic nature of this rally becomes impossible to predict. |
|
Newtonian lamps had a metal light-tight chimney, wicks surrounded by glass panels that could be easily replaced if they cracked, and a parabolic reflector to improve the direction and intensity of the light. |
|
The facilities, with a power of 50 MW and cylindrical parabolic concentration technology, will generate clean energy equivalent to the yearly consumption of 37,000 homes, thus preventing 70,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions yearly. |
|
The flame was lit using the rays of the sun, to ensure its purity, and a skaphia, the ancestor of the parabolic mirror used today for lighting the Olympic flame. |
|
The parabolic reflector is illuminated by a wave guide rear feed. |
|
The parabolic antenna consists of a parabolic reflector and a feeder. |
|
Originally, it was lit by 13 oil lamps, each equipped with a parabolic reflector, but that system was replaced by a more efficient lens at the end of the 19th century. |
|
The complainant's ex-wife's family reported him to the authorities on the basis that he frequented a suspicious address in Shiraz, had a parabolic antenna, and frequently drank alcohol. |
|
This reflector provides indirect lighting via the parabolic reflector. |
|
For parabolic equations and for the exterior Dirichlet problem, it is possible to apply the well known mean value theorems. |
|
In inland deserts, parabolic dunes commonly originate and extend downwind from blowouts in sand sheets only partly anchored by vegetation. |
|
Simple parabolic dunes have only one set of arms that trail upwind, behind the leading nose. |
|
Compound parabolic dunes are coalesced features with several sets of trailing arms. |
|
Complex parabolic dunes include subsidiary superposed or coalesced forms, usually of barchanoid or linear shapes. |
|
|
A type of extensive parabolic dune that lacks discernible slipfaces and has mostly coarse grained sand is known as a zibar. |
|
They use either parabolic troughs or heliostats to direct sunlight onto a pipe containing a heat transfer fluid, such as oil. |
|
Some of these designs incorporate parabolic reflectors as a means of increasing the wave energy at the point of capture. |
|
The automobile headlamp uses either a parabolic reflector or a slight modification of it to obtain a concentrated light beam. |
|
Most 2D surveillance radars use a spoiled parabolic antenna with a narrow azimuthal beamwidth and wide vertical beamwidth. |
|
A turntable for which the Coriolis force is the only factor is the parabolic turntable. |
|
The parabolic shape is because the centripetal force is proportional to the square of the tangential speed. |
|
Its parabolic arch and splayed legs are designed to withstand wind speeds up to 120 mph. |
|
The development of numerical techniques for solving parabolic partial differential equations is subjects of considerable interest. |
|
This paper deals with discrete monotone iterative methods for solving semilinear singularly perturbed problems of elliptic and parabolic types. |
|
Importantly, we find that the hopfion can be stabilized in a simple parabolic trap, without the need for trap rotation or inhomogeneous interactions. |
|
Digital Simulation in Electrochemistry explains to the reader how to numerically solve the parabolic partial differential equations encountered in electroanalytical chemistry. |
|
Previous researchers have used a compound parabolic concentrator for this purpose, yet it takes a very large CPC to achieve the high degree of collimation needed. |
|
Strange attractors for periodically forced parabolic equations. |
|
To demonstrate the Coriolis effect, a parabolic turntable can be used. |
|
Owing to its lower cost and less wind exposure, shipboard, airport surface, and harbour surveillance radars now use this approach in preference to a parabolic antenna. |
|
Most parabolic dunes do not reach heights higher than a few tens of metres except at their nose, where vegetation stops or slows the advance of accumulating sand. |
|
The new edition includes a modest amount of new material in some chapters and a more substantial amount on feed horn design and the construction of parabolic reflectors. |
|
On the index of parabolic subalgebras of semisimple Lie algebras. |
|
The stability of the dunes was once attributed to the vegetative cover but recent research has pointed to water as the main source of parabolic dune stability. |
|
|
In front of the ancient ruins of the Temple of Hera, an actress playing as a high priestesses lit the Olympic flame by the rays of the sun in a parabolic mirror. |
|