Impetus for war
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There were numerous causes for the French and Indian War, which began less than a decade after France and Britain had fought on opposing sides in the War of the Austrian Succession ...
Impetus - A theory of motion, developed in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, that motion could continue only so long as a force was at work
Inclination - The tilt of the rotation axis or orbital plane of a body ...
Though primarily a dynastic conflict, the war gave impetus to ideas of both French and English nationality. Militarily, it saw the introduction of new weapons and tactics, which eroded the older system of feudal armies dominated by heavy cavalry.
World War II provided the impetus and motivation for the development of long-range suborbital rockets. The U.S., the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and Germany simultaneously developed rockets for military purposes.
(1984 ApJLett 281, L59), and given new impetus by the discovery of luminous arcs in galaxy clusters (Lynds and Petrosian 1986 BAAS 18, 1014; Soucail et al. 1987 A&A 172, L14; 1988 A&A 191, L19).
But solid physical spheres still featured in both Galileo's and Newton's early celestial mechanics, with Galileo initially considering the planets to be rolling around the upper surfaces of fixed perfectly smooth spheres driven by their own impetus ...
In fact, the impetus for solar science early this century came not from astronomers, but from geologists. At the beginning of this century, they believed that the oldest rocks on the Earth are about 4 billion years old and that the Sun was 4.
The likelihood is that a galaxy like this will soon (in galactic terms) lose the impetus to form stars and settle down to become a lenticular galaxy. Image credit : NOAO ...
This issue has been given renewed impetus by the recent claim (see also this and this) that a meteorite found on the Earth was once part of Mars (because of detailed chemical composition), ...
Much - if not all - of the impetus behind the 1959-76 rush of spacecraft to the Moon was political: space (and the Moon in particular) was looked at as a great proving-ground of the technological might of the "superpowers.
511 MeV annihilation radiation was the impetus for this work, although the reality of black hole sources of annihilation radiation is now in dispute (although diffuse annihilation radiation in the galaxy and on the Sun from radioactive beta-emitters ...
Two key projects, the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey and the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey provided the scientific impetus for building this multifibre instrument.
A bound state consisting of a charmed quark and a charmed antiquark. A major impetus for the quark theory was the discovery in 1974 of the J/ particle, a particle whose properties closely matched the predictions for charmonium. [G97] ...
At first, it is not in motion, but then the thrower's arm provides an impetus which accelerates it (our vocabulary, not Aristotle's). No big problem yet. But then, what keeps it going after it leaves the thrower's hand?
The Ansari Foundation is responsible for the Ansari X prize; a prize that rewards viable commercial spaceflight programs. The main impetus of the foundation is to make commercial spaceflight economic enough to become profitable.
Escape velocity. The minimum speed that an object must attain to escape from the surface of the planet or other body without being given any extra impetus. The escape velocity of Earth is 11.2 kilometres per second.
Although his calculation was a non-relativistic one, it was a definite starting point. This work provided the impetus for the pioneering later work done by Richard Feynman, ...
518-22, vol 35, December 1997. Incidentally, much of the impetus behind those schools came from Lorand Eötvös, noted earlier in connection with the concept of mass, and from his father Joszef.
A message from the Time Prophet in the memory chamber leads him to them, and although Kai has already been cut in half, a ray of light reflected off his memory disc hits him and gives him the impetus to put himself back together and save Zev.
is known as a "transit of Venus" and is very rare: the last one was in 1882, the next one is in 2012 but after than you'll have to wait until 2117. While no longer of great scientific importance as it was in the past, this event was the impetus for a ...
century that a standard and uniform government issue of paper money was made into an acceptable nationwide currency. The already widespread methods of woodblock printing and then Bi Sheng's movable type printing by the 11th century was the impetus ...
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