There was the usual routine loudspeaker-business while everyone quickly and efficiently strapped into his acceleration cradle, and then the ship leaped skyward.
It took the better part of an hour to get all sixty of them up--they had fallen all over the ship--and nestled in the acceleration cradles.
In the act of growth increased rate of assimilation is involved, so that there is an acceleration of change till a bulk of maximum activity is attained.
The masses of water set in motion depend upon the surface submerged, and their acceleration depends upon the speed of the vessel.
All those masses of water which receive a horizontal acceleration from the keel run counter, on the contrary, to the propulsive stress, and it becomes of interest, therefore, to bring them to a minimum.
For protons, the frequency at the start of acceleration is 36 megacycles (Mc).
At the end of acceleration the frequency is only 18 Mc (see Fig.
The frequency of oscillation must decrease during the acceleration cycle, as indicated above.
The protons then escape into the acceleration chamber through a hole in the ion-source housing.
Tom strapped himself into his acceleration chair and, watching the atmospheric altimeter, a delicate instrument that recorded their height above the surface of a heavenly body, began to call off the indicated figures.
As Commander Walters released the straps holding him securely in his accelerationchair and stepped up beside Strong, the Solar Guard captain gestured toward the teleceiver screen on the bulkhead.
Astro had just enough time to throw himself into an acceleration chair before the ship shot away from the Deimos spaceport toward the wreckage of the Space Lance.
Aboard the sleek craft, Tom Corbett relaxed after the tremendous blast-off acceleration and turned to look at the tense face of Kit Barnard who was seated in the pilot's chair.
Seated in his acceleration chair on the control deck of the Space Lance, waiting for Bill Sticoon to come aboard, Tom found his concern for Roger overriding his enthusiasm for the race.
Ehrlich regarded these as typical examples of a relative acceleration of the morphological ripening of the cells, as compared with the development of the granules.
Occasionally a distinct acceleration in the clotting, compared with the normal, may be observed.
Thus the seeming acceleration of the moon might be accounted for as actual retardation of the earth's rotation--a lengthening of the day instead of a shortening of the month.
At Greenwich he undertook some tedious observations of the moon, and during those observations was first to detect the acceleration of mean motion.
From the moment of take-off, it had seemed to him that the grim bowl of Terra below him was taking a bigger bite out of his acceleration than it should.
Returning to the pilot chamber, he pressed the firing button and acceleration returned a form of gravity to the ship's interior, giving him weight for the first time since the freakish accident.
And by the same process by which we deduced the diagram of velocities from that of displacements we may deduce the diagram of rates of acceleration from that of total acceleration.
The study of the motion of a material system is much assisted by the use of a series of diagrams representing the configuration, displacement and acceleration of the parts of the system.
A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite.
The final stage fired and accelerationbegan once more.
Had he not been put through the torture of first-stage acceleration he could have taken the second stage without more than great discomfort.
The acceleration was less, and the time of burning was less.
The pain began, the pain of tortured muscles and organs pressed slowly, inexorably toward the deck as acceleration built up.
The car shuddered a little, but theacceleration continued.
Out the other side, with ever-increasing acceleration it slid in alongside the gleaming silver ribbon, faster and faster.
And the acceleration reaches a gravity of nine at one point.
Then the acceleration began, and in less than a minute, Monk knew a taste of Hell.
But you won't have to be concerned about the acceleration on the second blast-off.
His reply came, choked with acceleration sickness and the greater sickness of defeat: "We will surrender.
This he did with a simple ultimatum to the commander: "This cruiser is firmly attached to your ship, its acceleration limitator disconnected.
We from Ragnarok are accustomed to a one point five gravity and can withstand much higher degrees of acceleration than Gerns or any other race from a one gravity world.
To enable us to take advantage of that fact we have had theacceleration limitator on this cruiser disconnected.
You will surrender at once or we shall be forced to put these two ships into a curve of such short radius and at an acceleration so great that all of you will be killed.
All the other Gerns are by now in their acceleration couches," he said.
The commander, already sick from an acceleration that would have been negligible to Ragnarok men, had no choice.
Strap yourself in for highacceleration maneuvers--we'll make contact with the battleship within two minutes.
He touched the acceleration control and Narth's next words were cut off as his diaphragm sagged.
Its drives are of sufficient power to thrust both ships forward at a much higher degree of acceleration than persons from one-gravity worlds can endure.
It was Fanny she read most easily of all; Fanny who in such moments revealed to the shrewdness of her gaze that faint acceleration of pulse, to the realization of which nothing but the bitterness in her heart could have sharpened her.
Love was uplifting and in the ecstasy it brought were not the drops flung farther, higher from the wheel in the acceleration of its revolutions?
Among the interesting results of Newton's theory may be mentioned its application to secular inequalities, such as the acceleration of the moon's mean motion, that satellite moving somewhat quicker now than she did ages ago.
There is, then, an elevation of the peripheral temperature, followed by a lowering of tension in the arteries and an acceleration in the movement of the heart.
Acceleration of the respiratory rate where no physiological cause operates is due to a variety of conditions.
There is in fever at first a relaxation of the small blood vessels, which may have been preceded by a contraction of the same if there was a chill, and as a consequence there is an acceleration of the current of the blood.
The pressure was building now, as we blasted around in a hairpin curve, ouracceleration picking up fast.
I had to hold our acceleration down to two and a half gees because I had to be able to move around the ship.
In no way will the acceleration of the speed of progress be more apparent than in the thoughts and emotions of men.
Quite lately an error has been found in the working, which diminishes the theoretical gravitation-acceleration to six seconds a century instead of ten, thus making it insufficient to agree exactly with fact.
Now this would have happened from either of two causes, either an acceleration of the moon in her orbit, or a retardation of the earth in her diurnal rotation--a shortening of the month or a lengthening of the day, or both.
Partly because of the acceleration of the moon's mean motion, as explained in the lecture on Laplace (p.
What was the physical cause of this acceleration according to the theory of gravitation?
Fear such as he had never known, even under the last acceleration pressure of the take-off from Terra, beat through Raf's veins away from his laboring heart.
He spurted forward, matching the merman's accelerationof speed.
