precess

How To Use precess In A Sentence

• The device is called a proton precession magnetometer. The Moses Expedition
• An example is periodic motion, such as the precession of a particle with intrinsic spin and magnetic moment in a constant magnetic field.
• (The observed precession is really 5270 ''/century, but a painstaking calculation to subtract the disturbances from all the other planets gives the value of 43 ''.) Forces
• This conclusion is consistent with the hypothesis that the rotational axis of the minor planet has no precession.
• Then, in great precession we walked out to the field for commencement accompanied by bagpipes.
• It is also referred to as the precession of the equinoxes or the great year in a comprehensive dictionary. Archive 2008-08-01
• Einstein's theory predicts that such gyroscopes will undergo geodetic precession merely because space-time is curved in the planet's vicinity.
• The unpaired electron makes the atoms themselves act like spinning bar magnets, with a magnetic moment three orders of magnitude stronger than that of precessing nuclei.
• There is a small periodic effect called nutation superimposed on precession caused by the motion of the perihelion of the Moon.
• Even Newtonian physics was unable to give a complete explanation of its orbit: the direction of the axis was found to move by rather more than could be explained by precession and the gravitational attraction of the other planets.