circular velocity
Americannoun
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She and her colleagues measured the circular velocity of stars and found that the resulting rotation curves were surprisingly flat.
From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2024
They then incorporated this map into a model of circular velocity, to simulate how fast any one star must be traveling, given the distribution of all the other stars in the galaxy.
From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2024
At the planet’s mean distance, the circular velocity of the vortex is equal to the circular velocity of the planet, and, at different distances, is inversely in the sub-duplicate ratio of those distances.
From Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Bassnett, Thomas
But the circular velocity of a planet in the same orbit, is in the simple ratio of the distances inversely.
From Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Bassnett, Thomas
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