During purely translational motion (motion with no rotation), all points on a rigid body move with the same velocity.

By selecting the center of gravity as the reference point for a rigid body, the gravity forces will not cause the body to rotate, which means weight of the body can be considered to be concentrated at the center of mass.

In other words, the distance between any two given points of a rigid body remains constant in time regardless of external forces exerted on it.

In a rigid body vortex flow of a fluid with constant density, the dynamic pressure is proportional to the square of the distance r from the axis.

A rigid body is called chiral if its mirror image is different in that sense, i.e., if it has either no symmetry or its symmetry group contains only proper rotations.

An environmental psychologist told me, If you're sitting in a hard chair on a rigid surface, you'll be more rigid.

You mix them together and they make a rigid double helix.

Second, China s financial system is fragile, and its economic structure rigid.

Rigid timetables that history suggests would not be met should be eschewed.

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And that means that China also must reconsider its rigid notion of sovereignty.

Global element It is recommended that the Conference of the Parties establish a subsidiary body that could be called the Global Co ordinating Group (GCG) to oversee all elements of the GMP.

Rigid rules and distant policymakers merely suffocate the animal spirits of the business class.

More importantly, even the regulators themselves have ceased to believe in obsolete and rigid doctrines.

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So the point here is that not all boys exist within these rigid boundaries of what we think of as boys and girls, and not all girls exist within those rigid boundaries of what we think of as girls.

In the American Iranian equation it was the US, not Iran, that conducted rigid ideological diplomacy.

For almost 40 years, that era s Western feminist critique of rigid sex role stereotyping has prevailed.

The problem, however, is that prices have generally proved much more rigid, declining only in Ireland.

But it is more likely that the regime is too rigid and too blinkered to act.

These structures are often rigid, quite bureaucratic, dominating by men, and as such, intimidating for women.

Magnesium is a chemical element.

Krypton is a chemical element.

The fifth element concerns partnerships.

The Indian Body. The Kurdish Body. The Pakistani Body.

To put it simply, a sound management system cannot operate with rigid bureaucratic structures and institutional inflexibilities.

The Agreement makes no special provision for payment of the Swiss element of the pension, unlike the Spanish element

Hence, we write the position element as formula_81 and the velocity element as formula_82, indicating that they vary with time.

Customary law is not rigid in that it is made to fit round the demands of global economy.

The other school, by contrast, worried that the existing monetary system was rigid, brittle, and prone to crisis.

Moreover, removing rigid protections without offering alternative, contingent safety nets and judicial redress is a recipe for conflict.

The Security Officer will also be responsible for ensuring that all technology meets rigid security standards before deployment.

Indeed, the application of rigid solutions has contributed rather to a further widening of the gap between countries.

The primary decay products before 48Ti are element 21 (scandium) isotopes and the primary products after are element 23 (vanadium) isotopes.

Relevance is a key element in communication.

In chemistry, N represents the element nitrogen.

Body volume is combined with body weight (mass) in order to determine body density.

It can also be empty, at which point removing an element will be impossible until a new element has been added again.

With regard to parliament, there is no need to follow Lebanon s rigid apportionment of seats according to confessional identity.

These qualities simply don't exist in Russia's Sovietized military organizations, with their rigid hierarchies and culture of blind conformity.

Saudi Arabia, long one of the Arab world s most rigid societies, now finds itself in a state of flux.