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Gravitational

(Science: physics) Of or pertaining to the force of gravity; as, gravitational units.


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Re: Artery vs Vein

... loses kinetic energy with distance increase. Furthermore blood flowing from the lower limbs back to heart through the inferior vena cava is aginst gravitational pull. thats why vena cava, veins all have semi lunar valve to prevent backflow of blood.

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by chanhankiang
Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:01 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Artery vs Vein
Replies: 11
Views: 15705

The Fiber Disease

... coupled scalar field with a potential that decreases as the field increases is usually introduced for this purpose . The action is given bythe 4D gravitational constant. This is a canonically normalized scalar action coupled to the 4D gravity.for cosmological purpose, then the energy density and ...

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by Nadas Moksha
Sat Aug 19, 2006 7:38 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
Replies: 7403
Views: 748687

The Fiber Disease

... determining whether string theory is on the right track. The effect that they describe and that could be discovered by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory), a facility for detecting gravitational waves that is just becoming operational, could provide support for string theory ...

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by London
Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:02 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
Replies: 7403
Views: 748687

take home quiz

... of it is still present as a component of the modern atmosphere. B) When the Earth melted, it burned. C) It escaped into space because the Earth's gravitational field was not strong enough to hold it. D) Most of it combined with the oxygen in the early atmosphere to form water, which rained down ...

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by dionne2004
Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:02 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: take home quiz
Replies: 3
Views: 1499

potential energy

... down. THEREFORE IF IT'S FLOATING AROUND, IT HAS POTENTIAL, RIGHT? I don't really understand what she meant by this: maybe potential energy in a gravitational field where something is considered to have potential energy if they can convert it into kynetic energy by falling. We are discussing ...

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by MrMistery
Mon Nov 28, 2005 7:14 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: potential energy
Replies: 39
Views: 7429
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