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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

We do not believe that, as some suggest, such a step would hamstring the Council by imposing rigid guidelines.

In this regard, the constant search for consensus should not be hindered by unreasonable pre conditions or rigid positions.

It is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Language, on the other hand, has an intermediate level of entropy it's neither too rigid, nor is it too random.

Rigid, top down uniformity is essential in the specification of weights and measures and the issuance of currency and coin.

High tax rates on labor together with rigid regulation of hiring and firing make employers extremely reluctant to recruit workers.

Such legislation must also have rigid compliance standards that are reviewed and enforced by the state s electoral authorities and courts.

It is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

The body fat percentage of a human or other living being is the total mass of fat divided by total body mass body fat includes essential body fat and storage body fat.

First, rigid rules that wipe out shareholders and penalize long term creditors are a clear deterrent from bankers point of view.

Thus, the attempt to protect workers with rigid labor laws may have the unintended consequence of generating too few protected jobs.

Thus, a sort of free gift exchange between employer and employee emerged from these experiments, not any rigid or formulaic employment contract.

The stability of the international financial system today depends on the willingness of countries with rigid exchange rates to allow greater flexibility.

When asked about the role of capital controls, Strauss Kahn said he was not wedded to any rigid ideology on the subject.

Six degrees of freedom The motion of a ship at sea has the six degrees of freedom of a rigid body, and is described as Translation Moving up and down (heaving) Moving left and right (swaying) Moving forward and backward (surging) Rotation Tilts forward and backward (pitching) Swivels left and right (yawing) Pivots side to side (rolling).

Suddenly, I had a body, a body that was pricked and poked and punctured, a body that was cut wide open, a body that had organs removed and transported and rearranged and reconstructed, a body that was scanned and had tubes shoved down it, a body that was burning from chemicals.