In that case, the free surface of the water will assume a parabolic shape.

Well, the only way to experience zero g on Earth is actually with parabolic flight, weightless flight.

The global market has been dominated by parabolic trough plants, which account for 90 of CSP plants.

In 1866, Auguste Mouchout used a parabolic trough to produce steam for the first solar steam engine.

The parabolic reflector transforms an incoming plane wave traveling along the axis into a spherical wave converging toward the focus.

It works equally well for the circular, elliptical, parabolic, and hyperbolic cases, the differential equations converging well when integrated for any orbit.

The narrow beam width of a normal parabolic satellite antenna means it can only receive signals from a single satellite at a time.

The main reason for its development was to eliminate the cost of moving a large mirror to track the sun as with parabolic dish systems.

The ISAAC uses a parabolic trough solar collector and a compact and efficient design to produce ice with no fuel or electric input, and with no moving parts.

The most common interpretation of large, chevron shaped bed forms is that they are a form of parabolic dune, and that most examples are generated by wind action.

A parabolic (or paraboloid or paraboloidal) reflector (or dish or mirror) is a reflective surface used to collect or project energy such as light, sound, or radio waves.

For example, the parabolic trough concentration is about 1 3 of the theoretical maximum for the same acceptance angle, that is, for the same overall tolerances for the system.

The downlinked satellite signal, quite weak after traveling the great distance (see inverse square law), is collected with a parabolic receiving dish, which reflects the weak signal to the dish's focal point.

Here are some fun images. Here's Burt Rutan and my good friend Greg Meronek inside a zero gravity people think a zero gravity room, there's a switch on there that turns it off but it's actually parabolic flight of an airplane.