 | Frank Herbert Loud - 1880 - 134 pàgines
...a = the arc OB, OC, OD, or OE, measured from the origin of arcs around to the extremity of the arc in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch. (See § 60.) r sin a = FB, GC, HD, or IE, the ordinate of the extremity of the arc or the distance... | |
 | Edmund Alexander Parkes - 1883 - 578 pàgines
...converging currents of air. In violent storms the winds tend to circulate about the stormcentre also in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch. From this it will be at once perceived that when an area of low barometer happens to be crossing... | |
 | 1883 - 854 pàgines
...examined, they will be observed whirling round the area of low barometer in a circular manner, and in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch, with — and be this particularly noted — a constant tendency to turn inwards towards the... | |
 | Edmund Alexander Parkes - 1883 - 580 pàgines
...converging currents of air. In violent storms the winds tend to circulate about the stormcentre also in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch. From this it will be at once perceived that when an area of low barometer happens to be crossing... | |
 | Joseph Anthony Gillet, William James Rolfe - 1884 - 538 pàgines
...United States, around every storm-centre, the wind moves spirally inward, circulating about the centre in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch, and the average inclination of the winds to a radius drawn from the centre of the storm is almost... | |
 | Ralph Abercromby - 1885 - 146 pàgines
...especially the right front, while the rear is dry to a marked degree. The wind blows round the centre in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch which is lying horizontally with its face upwards ; but as the direction is slightly inclined... | |
 | Webster Wells - 1887 - 200 pàgines
...magnitude. In the circle AA", let AA" and A'A"' be a pair of perpendicular diameters. Suppose a radius OB to start from the position OA, and revolve about the point 0 as a pivot in the direction of OA'. When it coincides with OA', it has described an angular magnitude of 90° ; when... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1887 - 1176 pàgines
...curves work is done in a complete cycle by the electric circuit on the iron when the curve is traced in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch, and contrariwise. We can now notice several facts : — (1) In all diagrams for the primary... | |
 | 1887 - 470 pàgines
...area, the atmosphere was wellnigh calm. In the former area the winds circulated about the low centre in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch, and at the same time showed a decided tendency inward toward the centre of low pressure. In... | |
 | Adolphus Washington Greely - 1888 - 410 pàgines
...the right hand. It thus follows that in the cyclone, as has been set forth, the winds blow inward, in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch in the Northern Hemisphere, and the winds of a high area, or anti-cylcone, blow outward, in a... | |
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... in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch, with — and be this particularly noted — a constant tendency to turn inwards towards the centre of lowest barometer. 
