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IMPULSE FORCE [5 records]

Record 1 2024-10-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
CONT

Physical and chemical properties are related at the atomic level. A chemical physicist investigates how atoms respond to force and energy while a physical chemist investigates how atoms interact with other molecules. For example, when studying crystals a chemical physicist would evaluate the molecular movement in the crystal lattice when bombarded with different energy sources such as an infrared beam or electrical impulse. A physical chemist would evaluate how the crystal lattice forms based on interactions between molecules and the overall properties that the lattice structure generates in the entire material.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Physique
  • Chimie
Key term(s)
  • chimiophysicien
  • chimiophysicienne

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Criminology
CONT

Continuing offence... continuous unlawful act or series of acts set on foot by a single impulse and operated by an unintermittent force, however long a time it may occupy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Criminologie
OBS

L'infraction continue (que l'on appelle encore infraction successive dans la terminologie judiciaire) consiste dans un état délictueux susceptible de se prolonger plus ou moins longtemps. Ici encore, on trouve non seulement des infractions de commission [...] mais aussi des infractions d'omission [...]. (Pierre Bouzat et Jean Pinatel, Traité de droit pénal et de criminologie, tome I, Paris, Librairie Dalloz, 1963, page 196.)

OBS

Contrairement à la common law, la doctrine française fait la distinction entre les infractions instantanées et continues et les infractions continues et permanentes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Infracciones y crímenes
  • Criminología
DEF

[Delito] en el que el culpable consigue un único resultado delictivo realizando no una sino varias acciones que, al violar un único derecho, y aunque cada una de ellas por sí constituyese un delito, son consideradas como la ejecución parcial de un solo delito.

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Record 3 2004-05-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Launchers (Astronautics)
CONT

Magnetoplasmadynamic(MPD) thrusters pass a large current radially outwards through a neutral plasma, from a central cathode to an annular anode. The radial current induces an azimuthal, circular magnetic field. The Lorentz body force acting on ions moving in the discharge current accelerates the plasma along the axis of the electrode structure. MPD thrusters operate at high power levels, kilowatts to megawatts, and provide high thrust with moderate specific impulse. A variant of this design uses an externally applied magnetic field to enable operation at lower power levels. MPD thrusters have been tested in the laboratory and have flown on test and demonstration missions. MPD thrusters are an insufficiently mature technology and consume too much power to be considered as candidates to provide primary propulsion of future out of Earth orbit missions and were not considered for SMART-1.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lanceurs (Astronautique)

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Curling
DEF

The force, speed and impulse, a curler puts in a delivered rock while he or she has a foot in the hack.

OBS

This force can be contained during the sliding portion of the delivery, before the rock is released.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Curling
DEF

Force d'impulsion qu'un curleur, une curleuse, met dans la pierre alors qu'il ou elle a encore un pied dans l'appui-pied ou étrier.

OBS

Cette puissance peut être contenue pendant la glissade, portion du lancer qui précède le lâcher de la pierre.

Spanish

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Record 5 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Turbines
OBS

--the motivating force is one of impulse of a stream against a blade.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Turbines
OBS

--la vapeur [agit] uniquement par sa force vive sur les aubes de la roue mobile.

Spanish

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