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Data Recovery E-Book

By: EaseUS

...disk. Most disks used in personal computers today rotate at a constant angular velocity. The tracks near the outside of the disk are less densely... ... Most disks used in personal computers today rotate at a constant angular velocity. The tracks near the outside of the disk are less densely populat...

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Data Recovery E-Book

By: EaseUS

...disk. Most disks used in personal computers today rotate at a constant angular velocity. The tracks near the outside of the disk are less densely... ... Most disks used in personal computers today rotate at a constant angular velocity. The tracks near the outside of the disk are less densely populat...

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Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...ooden stool, or placid on a red plastic stool, strength thwarted, and with angular crowds stumbling over me." Almost without thinking it, he felt the... ...tched the lit barges on the river and gorgeous glassy skyscrapers with lit angular tiaras. Strangely enough she felt at peace with them as if they we... ...eater stratum of wanting and needing, winds of higher and more pleasurable velocity. The mosquito buzzed around Jatupon's blackened eyes and ...

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Today's Take on Einstein's Relativity

By: Homer B. Titon and Florentin Smarandache

...n his 1905 paper, specifically took the rate of a clock's timekeeping to be velocity-dependent only. However [there are] those who object. In this b... ...equency just as an electric spark causes space to "vibrate" at its resonant velocity, c, showing why the speed of a beam of light is independent of o... ... to his 1905 landmark paper, he wrote. “From this we conclude that... the velocity c plays the part of a limiting velocity, which can neither be r... ...less than his stay-at-home sibling? Is that what the dilation of time with velocity means? Is that kind of "time travel" an assured, preordained t... ...LITION angle brackets enclose paraphrasings Its construction - <The velocity of light acts as an infinite velocity.> ...A. Einstein, his lan... ...d of 300 megameters per second [1/ √(µ o ε o )] analogously to the resonant angular frequency of an LC circuit. We can also draw an 96 anal...

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Begin the Adventure : How to Break the Light Barrier

By: Florentin Smarandache

... Model." Top - The pattern of isochrons from a particle moving at the velocity of light; the barrier is evident; Center - The pattern as a pa... ...s evident; Center - The pattern as a particle accelerates through the velocity of light; note that there is no longer a barrier in evidence; ... ... Bottom - The pattern corresponding to a particle moving at twice the velocity of light; the Cerenkov shockwavefront is clearly shown. Isochr... ...the craft could accelerate almost indefinitely at one g! Bussard put the velocity at which the ramjet "bites" (its minimum operational velocity) at ... ...xample; the Light Barrier is another. And when we speak of measuring the velocity of a ship as it approaches the velocity of light, a fact that is ... ... the fact that 1/ √(LC) is the free- space speed of light (or the resonant angular frequency of a hi-Q parallel tuned circuit), where L and C are the... ...r pentagon, the ends of each module being joined to their neighbors by an angular node. The nodes carry airlocks and docking ports and provide stowa... ...counterclockwise around the life ring, facing forward. N1 through N5 are angular nodes connecting the five modules. Node N1 connects module M1 to ...

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Progress in Physics : The Journal on Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Including Related Themes from Mathematics

By: Florentin Smarandache

...e. D’Alembert’s equations of the feld show that this speed is equal to the velocity of light corrected by gravitational potential. The approach leads ... ...g a free wave. There is the time term 1 a 2 ∂ 2 ∂t 2 containing the linear velocity a of the wave. For this reason, in the case of gravitational felds... ...the result may be different according to the way we defne the speed as the velocity of waves of the metric, or something else. The usual approach sets... ... ∂ 2 ∂t 2 − ∂ 2 ∂x 2 ζ β α =0, so weak waves of the metric travel at the velocity of light in empty space. This approach leads to an experiment, bas... ...hr.inv.-vector of gravitational inertial forceF i , the chr.inv.-tensor of angular velocities of the space rotation A ik , and the chr.inv.-tensor of ... ...e would be best. Such a satellite, having an equatorial orbit, requires an angular ve- locity the same as that of the Earth. As a result, the height o... ... and lower bounds in the acceleration and an upper and lower bounds in the angular velocity. We study the particular behavior of a test particle livin... ... [25]. We fnalize this subsection by pointing out that the maximal/minimal angular velocity correspond to c/L P and c/R respectively. A maximum angula... ...ences in future Thomas-precession experiments [61], [73] whereas a minimal angular velocity has important con- sequences in galactic rotation measurem...

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Progress in Physics : The Journal on Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Including Related Themes from Mathematics, Volume 2

By: Florentin Smarandache

...−g αβ +b α b β which fully defne his real reference space (here b α is his velocity with respect to his real references). Thus, the chr.inv.-projectio... ...r.inv.- vector of gravitational inertial forceF i , the chr.inv.-tensor of angular velocities of the space rotationA ik , and the chr.inv.- tensor of ... ... , (4) wherew is gravitational potential,v i =−c g 0i √ g 00 is the linear velocity of the space rotation, h ik =−g ik + 1 c 2 v i v k is the chr.inv.... ...placement along his spatial section is dx i =0, so its observable chr.inv.-velocity vector equals zero;v i = dx i dτ =0. Such a particle moves only al... ... “magnetic” observable component of a time den- sity feld manifests as the angular velocity Aik of the space rotation. In accordance with the above, t... ...ic” observable component of a time den- sity feld manifests as the angular velocity Aik of the space rotation. In accordance with the above, two parti... ... . (84) The termA ik A ik here, being expressed through the space rotation angular velocity pseudovector Ω i , is A km A km =ε kmn Ω n A km =2Ω ... ...A 21 are non-zeroes) and replacing the tensor A ik with the space rotation angular velocity pseudovector Ω m in the form ε mik Ω m = 1 2 ε mik ε m... ...ting around the axisx 3 =z (the rotation is in the xy-plane) at a constant angular velocity Ω. In this case A 12 =−A 21 =−Ω, A 13 =0, A 23 =0, so the ...

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The Kaluza Concept

By: Keith Young

... obtain: Fig.13. The Tilting of A’s Simultaneous Spaces Due to His Velocity. 51 A is totally unaware of this tilting effect on his si... ...uite stunning, as you shall see! As you would expect, the greater the velocity, the more pronounced the tilting of the simultaneous spaces, wh... ...ds, the red arrow actually represents a particle travelling with a certain velocity through three spatial dimensions relative to another observer, ... ... parts must add up to the total spin of the original particle in order for angular momentum to be conserved. Now, say you confine one of the pa... ...ether it is only a matter of feet away or light years away! This is so angular momentum can be conserved. This fact can be proved algebraic... ...icle instigates a state vector collapse into a particular reality wherein angular momentum of particles which were once associated must be conserve... ...tation you wish to choose in which to measure the particle’s spin, and the angular momentum will still be conserved. By choosing your orientati... ...dinosaurs and right down to the niggly details such as the conservation of angular momentum of the particles in which ever eccentric orientation yo...

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Principa Mathematica

By: Isaac Newton

...tum tranfverfum corporis T, ut motus angu- LI BER laris line% p Cad morum angularem line% T C, id eil-, ut angulus YC~ pR * M ’ Se ad angulum YCT. ... ...tu corporis in orbe quocunque immobili, augeri vel minui potefi ejus mows angularis circa centrum virium in ratione data, & inde inveniri novi orbe... ... poteit dignitas illa ex motu apfidum# ; & contra. Nimirum ii mows totus angularis, quo corpus redit ad apfidem eandem, fit 37% 4 DE hIOfU CcJH... ...eandem, fit 37% 4 DE hIOfU CcJHPLIilJhi 140 PHILOSOPI-ITE ad motum angularem revolutionis unius, feu graduum 260, Ut ntp;. lnerus aliquis m a... ...“. I80 gr. $5 .%?I. .cj”4 J: lgitur co’qm de apfide fumma dikedens, motu angulari x80 gr. 4.5 ?zz. 4+J perveniet ad apiidem imnm, 6% hoc motu dupli... ... globus tern-- pore r in me&o refifiente, per refiltentiam R in duplicata velocity- tis l-atione decrefcentem, amittet motns fni M partem tM rpp m...

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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...surement, language, events, quants, units and so on. The private, macroscopic, low velocity instances of our physical descriptions of the universe ... ...ot so, how could we understand, for example, that 'measurement' of a component of 'angular momentum' ... in an arbitrarily chosen direction ... yi... ...ot so, how could we understand, for example, that 'measurement' of a component of 'angular momentum' ... in an arbitrarily chosen direction ... yie...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...urement, language, events, quants, units and so on. The private, macroscopic, low velocity instances of our physical descriptions of the universe ... ...not so, how could we understand, for example, that 'measurement' of a component of 'angular momentum' ... in an arbitrarily chosen direction ... yie... ...ot so, how could we understand, for example, that 'measurement' of a component of 'angular momentum' ... in an arbitrarily chosen direction ... yie...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...urement, language, events, quants, units and so on. The private, macroscopic, low velocity instances of our physical descriptions of the universe ... ...not so, how could we understand, for example, that 'measurement' of a component of 'angular momentum' ... in an arbitrarily chosen direction ... yie... ...ot so, how could we understand, for example, that 'measurement' of a component of 'angular momentum' ... in an arbitrarily chosen direction ... yie...

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The First Men in the Moon

By: H. G. Wells

... for a space, struggled up and was lifted and borne forward at an enormous velocity, vanishing at last among the labouring, lashing trees that writhed... ... sheet of metal. It seemed to be swinging open with a steadily accelerated velocity, and the bushes in front of me shifted sideways as I ran. I was no... ... defensive spears appeared the head and shoulders of a singularly lean and angular Selenite, bearing some complicated apparatus. I realised Cavor’s ut... ...uld be to drop back towards the moon as near as I dared in order to gather velocity, then to shut my windows, and fly behind it, and when I was past t... ...hen I would shut 127 H. G . Wells the windows, fly past the moon with the velocity I had got from it—if I did not smash upon it—and so go on towards ... ...all but an inch or so of earth- ward window, and dropped with a slackening velocity. The broadening water, now so near that I could see the dark glit-... ...o become wiry and active, his eye is indurated to the tight wrappings, the angular contours that constitute a ‘smart mooncalfishness.’ He takes at las...

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A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

...ittle bits. I dropped down unfathom- able precipices with the accelerating velocity of bodies fall- ing through space. My life had become an endless f... ...dow on the ground. Amongst them all, Scartaris laid down his sharp-pointed angular shadow which began to move slowly in the opposite direction to that... ...rock!” I waited with the deepest anxiety. Sound does not travel with great velocity. Even increased density air has no effect upon its rate of travell... ... rounded in front, and the anterior part of its body was plated with bony, angular scales; it had no teeth, its pectoral fins were large, and of tail ... ...oved slowly about the raft, but revolving on its own axis with astonishing velocity, as if whipped round by the force of the whirlwind. Here it comes,... ... threw on them the light of the lantern, and I could judge somewhat of the velocity of our speed by noticing how the jagged projections of the rocks s...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...een gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke, with immense velocity.” John Hunter’s account of the dissection of a whale. (A small siz... ... water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale’s heart.” Paley’s Theology. “T... ...four feet long, growing vertically from the hinder part of the back, of an angular shape, and with a very sharp pointed end. Even if not the slightest... ...isanthropic spear upon a barren plain; gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in swimming, as to defy all present pursuit from man; this leviath... ...vel base. But in life — as we have elsewhere seen — this inclined plane is angularly filled up, and almost squared by the enormous superincumbent mass ... ...ut he was nearest to them, and the other whales were going with such great velocity, moreover, as almost to defy pursuit for the time. At this junctur... ...all looked like flashing lines of stacked bayonets, moved on with redoubled velocity. Stripped to our shirts and drawers, we sprang to the white ash, a... ...gression every hour. It had been thus with the Pequod. The wooden reel and angular log attached hung, long untouched, just beneath the railing of the ... ... of the spindle, round which the spool of line revolved, so stood with the angular log hanging downwards, till Ahab advanced to him. Ahab stood before...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...een gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke, with immense velocity.” —John Hunter’ s Account of the Dissection of a Whale. (A small s... ...four feet long, growing vertically from the hinder part of the back, of an angular shape, and with a very sharp pointed end. Even if not the slightest... ...isanthropic spear upon a barren plain; gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in swimming, as to defy all present pursuit from man; this leviath... ... level base. But in life—as we have elsewhere seen— this inclined plane is angularly filled up, and almost squared by the enormous superincumbent mass... ...ut he was nearest to them, and the other whales were going with such great velocity, more- over, as almost to defy pursuit for the time. At this junct... ...ll looked like flashing lines of stacked bayonets, moved on with redoubled velocity. Stripped to our shirts and drawers, we sprang to the white- ash, ... ...at almost every shock the helms- man had not failed to notice the whirling velocity with which they revolved upon the cards; it is a sight that hardly... ...gression every hour. It had been thus with the Pequod. The wooden reel and angular log attached hung, long untouched, just be- neath the railing of th... ... of the spindle, round which the spool of line revolved, so stood with the angular log hanging down- wards, till Ahab advanced to him. Ahab stood befo...

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The Life of John Sterling

By: Thomas Carlyle

...us human competitions whatsoever. In every sense, his momentum depended on velocity of stroke, rather than on weight of metal; “beautifulest sheet-lig... ...over the seas. As a gifted amiable being, of a certain radiant tenuity and velocity, too thin and rapid and diffusive, in danger of dissipating himsel... ...he talent of waiting was, of all others, the one he wanted most. Impetuous velocity, all-hoping headlong alacrity, what we must call rashness and impa... ...is much more of the startling contrast of light and shade, as well as more angular boldness of outline; to all which the more abundant waters add a fr... ...si- ognomy, on all sides of it, offered as the chief expression. Alacrity, velocity, joyous ardor, dwelt in the eyes too, which were of brownish gray,...

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

...ne with them; he elbowed his way out almost fiercely, he made him- self as angular and bony as a cow, fearing lest some one should speak to him, lest ... ...llars, projecting fragments of cornices, and a dis- orderly flight of huge angular sheets of glass. She had an impression of a great ball of crimson-p... ...uman life. Slowly at first, as we traced it, and then with an accumulating velocity, the new powers were fabricated. Man as a whole did not seek them ...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...a ca- reer of Freedom; nay Patriot collision, which a mere differ- ence of velocity will bring about! Of a Jourdan Coup-tete, who has skulked thitherw... ...volution, which indeed distinguish themselves from common seasons by their velocity mainly, your miraculous Seven-sleeper might, with miracle enough, ... ...nvicted Chevaliers of the poniard keep descending pellmell, with impetuous velocity; and at the bottom of all stair- cases, the mixed multitude receiv... ...s beyond the Ural, Altai, Himmalayah: struck off from wood stereotypes, in angular Picture-writ- ing, they are jabbered and jingled of in China and Ja...

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Louis Lambert

By: Honoré de Balzac

...lt of the law in virtue of which the weight of a body is multiplied by its velocity. The weight of the feeling produced by suspense increases by the c... ...he same animal differs in the tropics of India and in the North. Under the angular or the vertical incidence of the sun’s rays nature is developed the...

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The Wheels of Chance a Bicycling Idyll

By: H. G. Wells

...oopdriver put his hands on his knees and stuck out his elbows with extreme angularity. In his heart he was rav- ing at his idiotic folly at thus beard... ...Chance man?” said Mr. Hoopdriver, with a business-like calm, and arms more angular than ever. “Eat ‘im!” said the little man with the beard; “eat ‘im ... ...gle, who was riding behind, and stood up on the ped- als. For a moment the velocity of the thing increased, and then they saw the dust fly from the br...

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The Pathfinder

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...ing branch came in sight; and, quickening its progress with the increasing velocity of the current, it swept swiftly down towards the Pathfinder, who ... ...r even three miles in the hour. On the rifts it even dashed forward with a velocity that was appalling to the unpractised eye. Jasper was of opinion t... ...r, at need, more pliable; but the out- lines of his person were rather too angular for the proportion that the eye most approves. Still, his motions, ... ...he bore. For eight hours did she scud in truth; and it was almost with the velocity of the gulls that wheeled wildly over her in the tempest, apparent... ... position well,” said Cap, as the cutter flew down towards the ship with a velocity almost equal- ling that of the gale, “for he is standing boldly to... ...ing of the swells would seem at times to wash her down to lee- ward with a velocity as great as that of the surges themselves. During this night Cap s...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ncestors) deep messages of admonition reached an individual through sudden angular deflexions of words, uttered or writ- ten, that had not been origin... ...myself, 6 but not, perhaps, in the same degree. She was much beyond me in velocity of apprehension and many other qualities of in- tellect. Here only... ...ves through so many new phases, and shifts its as- pects with so much more velocity than in past ages. A king, especially of this country, needs, beyo... ...rovements of the arts of travelling, and of transmitting intelligence with velocity, such as cannot be properly appreciated in the absence of all his-... ...nce of gravel walks in pri- vate parks or shrubberies. The average rate of velocity was, in consequence, exactly doubled—ten miles an hour being now g...

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The Pioneers Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna a Descriptive Tale

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...to the earth, failing head long and rolling over on the crust with its own velocity. A loud shout was given by the unseen marksman, and a couple of me... ...rd the Mohawk, along which a regular vehicle glided, semi-weekly, with the velocity of lightning, and under the direction of a knowing whip from the “... ...ng immediately over his head. The bird continued its course with the usual velocity . Natty lowered his rifle from his arm when the challenge 224 The... ...he conceit of his friend, but contin- ued to send the canoe forward with a velocity’ that proceeded much more from skill than his strength. Both of th... ...it ad- mitted of a straight course the little bark skimmed the lake with a velocity that urged the deer to seek its safety in some new turn. It was th... ...ion, the use of curved lines. Every thing about him was either straight or angular. But his tailor was a woman who worked, like a regimental contrac- ...

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The Alkahest

By: Honoré de Balzac

...e- brows, that broad skull stripped of hair, the upturned mous- tache, the angular, worn face!—What awful impassiveness in his bearing! Ah! surely if ... ...lightning, she ran up the stairway, without light, without noise, with the velocity of an arrow, and saw her father with a pistol at his head. “Take a...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...a dense wood on the other; and here and there, in the distance, a ragged and angular limbed and moss bearded cypress, top standing out, clear cut agai... ...e; but this, by inducing Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 340 greater velocity of flow, inevitably causes an enlargement of section, and if thi... ...ged all the water he had drank, with a force which sent the canoe with great velocity to the opposite shore. Instantly leaving the canoe, again they f...

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In the South Seas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... out of naked swords. For in this spot, over a neck of low land at the foot of the mountains, the trade-wind streams into Anaho Bay in a flood of almo... ...under the eaves, like the globe of some monstrous lamp under the margin of its shade. Our cabins, the sides being propped at a variety of inclinations...

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Typee a Romance of the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

... ground, and guided our descent by catching at the canes in our path. This velocity with which we thus slid down the side of the ravine soon brought u... ...e being fenced about with a little picket of canes. For what purpose these angular ornaments were intended I in vain endeavoured to discover. Another ...

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Tess of the Durbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy

...with the rude energy of a theolatry that was almost ferocious. Those black angularities which his face had used to put on when his wishes were thwarte... ...sure, in a few seconds he could make the long strap move at an in visible velocity. Beyond its extent the environment might be corn, straw, or chaos;... ...nken eye pits were of morbid hue, and the light in his eyes had waned. The angular hollows and lines of his aged ancestors had succeeded to their reig...

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The Old Curiosity Shop

By: Charles Dickens

...uld by no exertion sit easy in his chair, the seat of which was very hard, angular, slip pery, and sloping; the other, that tobacco smoke al ways ca... ...eded pert cottages, two and two with plots of ground in front, laid out in angular beds with stiff box borders and narrow paths between, where footste... ...ovel effect of making the counting house spin round and round with extreme velocity, and causing the floor and ceiling to heave in a very distressing ...

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Women in Love

By: D. H. Lawrence

...r-grey masses of houses looked like a vision of hell that 360 is cold and angular. They sat and looked. Away in the dis- tance was an angry redness o... ...arried the souls of the human beings beyond into an inhuman abstraction of velocity and weight and eternal, frozen snow. Gerald’s eyes became hard and...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ction in- vesting the mail itself, which features at that time lay—1st, in velocity unprecedented; 2dly, in the power and beauty of the horses: 3dly, ... ...men. Now, I, who be- lieve all errors to arise in some narrow, partial, or angular view of truth, am seldom disposed to meet any sincere affir- mation... ...iles the geometrical smoothness of a priori abstrac- tions with the coarse angularities of practical experience. The great work of Ricardo is of neces...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume One

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...apsed, then furiously expanded, then whirled round and round with horrible velocity, and finally, reeling and stag- gering like a drunken man, hurled ... ...hour, and indeed a much greater speed may be anticipated. But even at this velocity, it would take me no more than 322 days to reach the surface of th... ...orbit. For it is evident that such a medium must, in retarding the comet’s velocity, increase its centripetal, by weakening its centrifugal force. In ... ...e first stage of their ascensions from the earth, are known to rise with a velocity compara- tively moderate. Now, the power of elevation lies altoget... ... appear at all reasonable that, in this its progress upwards, the original velocity should be accelerated. On the other hand, I was not aware that, in... ...age. It will be remembered that, on the thirteenth, the earth subtended an angular breadth of twenty-five degrees. On the fourteenth this had greatly ... ...nted in volume, as to subtend no less than thirty-nine degrees in apparent angular diameter! I was thunderstruck! No words can give any adequate idea ...

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The Enormous Room

By: E. E. Cummings

...den sculpture of his torment; the big mouth of night carefully spurted the angular actual language of his martyred body. I had seen him before in the ... ...movements nor graceful nor awkward. It came and went with a certain sexual velocity, a velocity whose 117 e e cummings health and vigour made everyon... ...he man in the shafts leaning back with all his might to off- set a certain velocity promoted by the down grade, while the man behind tugged helpingly ... ...y of wasting your time. He did not come and he did not go. He drifted. His angular anatomy expended and collected itself with an effortless spontaneit... ...milar piece, brought it in- stantly forward and sideways with incognisable velocity and delivered such an immense wallop as smoothed The Young Pole ho... ...ot … his perfectly extraordinary face (a face perfectly at once fluent and angular, expressionless and sensitive) told me many things whereof even The...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...peful young gentleman in the Wellington trousers to his uncular and rather angular breast. In this house the yarn of life was of a mingled quality. Th... ...ances of the flight. In the abruptness of its commencement, and the fierce velocity of its execution, we read an expression of the wild barbaric chara... ...fore, it was resolved to gain; and yet, unless they moved upon it with the velocity of light cavalry, there was little chance but it would be found pr... ...hemselves beyond pursuit, they proceeded less rapidly; though still with a velocity which staggered the belief of Weseloff’s friends in after years. H... ...ive. Even a railroad generation, that should have faith in the miracles of velocity, lifts up its hands with an ‘Incredulus odi!’ we know that Dr. Nic... ...he star, but really in ourselves, we may deduce 209 Thomas de Quincey the velocity of our course, we may enter into our log daily the rate at which o...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...th course of half an hour we saw, at the distance of five o six miles, the angular edge of a great basaltic platform When we arrived at its base we fo... ...ur. From this cause, 202 The V oyage of the Beagle and from the man great angular fragments, tracking the boats became bot dangerous and laborious Th... ...e yards square, and projected five feet above th gravel. Its edges were so angular, and its size so great, tha I at first mistook it for a rock in sit... ...val- leys ar covered in an extraordinary manner by myri- ads of grea loose angular fragments of the quartz *Pernety, Voyage aux Isles Malouines, p. 52... ...rstand how it is effected; for the fact of a body being invisible from its velocity would perhaps be to him an idea totally inconceivable. Moreover, t... ...ith a great unstratified formation of mud and sand, containing rounded and angular fragments of all sizes, which has originated* in the repeated ploug...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...s a handsome man—perhaps the reverse. The contour of his face was somewhat angular and harsh. His forehead was lofty and very fair; his nose a snub; h... ...this on account of our having no objects about us by which to estimate our velocity, and on account of our going with the wind. To be sure, whenever w... ...ers presenting themselves at my side were light or dark in shade—curved or angular in outline. The hearing, at the same time, although excited in degr...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

... ‘parting from it, fly over the zenith, 74 The French Revolution with the velocity of birds:’—till at last, with one loud howl, the whole Four Winds ... ... of the Annual Taxation: all within eight-and-forty hours. At such rate of velocity it is going: the conjurors of the Oeil-de-Boeuf may well ask thems... ... speed; in what particular points of this variable course, which varies in velocity, but can never stop till Time itself stops, does revolution begin ... ...y pis- tols (void of ammunition), is flowing on. Sound of it flies, with a velocity of sound, to the outmost Barriers. By seven o’clock, on this raw O... ... in a career of Freedom; nay Patriot collision, which a mere difference of velocity will bring about! Of a Jourdan Coup-tete, who has skulked thitherw... ...s beyond the Ural, Altai, Himmalayah: struck off from wood stereotypes, in angular Picture-writing, they are jab- bered and jingled of in China and Ja...

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Biographical Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...at he did comprehend, were the motions like those of lightning, the fierce angular coruscations of that wild agency which comes forward so vividly in ... ...th the distances, as to furnish some- thing like a scale for measuring the velocity with which it moved. These German phenomena, circulated rapidly ov...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 2 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...nfluence upon any part and all parts of the boat. “I will now speak of the angular position of the piers. What is the amount of the angle? The course ... ...nd there was crowded and destroyed. “I shall try to prove that the average velocity of the cur- rent through the draw with the boat in it should be fi...

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ell as a doubt- ful-minded compass, was in the Haliotis. The two huge tri- angular mat sails, with their seventy-foot yards and booms, had followed th... ...h the wrecked sash. It fell on the metals and went out. With inconceivable velocity, the others, fifteen in all, followed, looking like rockets in the...

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

...One thought persisted maddeningly. It was of the crash into his body of a high velocity bullet. It made him feel very fragile and defenseless, and he ... ..., and knew that a pocket magnet could have captured a full load of the sharply angular grains he trod upon. And then, holding Balatta by the hand and ...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...uld not have done with whirling up and down the track with ever increasing velocity and still reviving shouts, till late in the night. One sailor was ... ...el, which blossoms late in October and in November, with its irregular and angular spray and petals like furies’ hair, or small ribbon streamers. Its ...

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