 | John Francis Twisden - 1868 - 364 strani
...certain point, we may agree to reckon it positive if the pressure tend to turn the body round that point in a direction contrary to that in which the hands of a watch move. If this assumption be made, then the moment of any other pressure must be reckoned negative... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - 1870 - 286 strani
...described the angle started. Suppose for instance that QP, starting from the position QE and revolving in a direction contrary to that in which the hands of a watch revolve, has come into the position indicated in the figure. It has then described an angle EQP... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1872 - 128 strani
...point directly opposite the former, — the rotation being such that stars near the pole move round it in a direction contrary to that in which the hands of a watch move. It will serve equally well if he faces due south, and remembers that the stellar sphere... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1872 - 142 strani
...point directly opposite the former, — the rotation being such that stars near the pole move round it in a direction contrary to that in which the hands of a watch move. It will serve equally well if he faces due south, and remembers that the stellar sphere... | |
 | William Cooper - 1873 - 520 strani
...simple rule is dedncible from these beautiful facts. In the northern hemisphere the cyclone rotates in a direction contrary to that in which the hands of a clock move, but in the southern hemisphere the rotation coincides with the movements of the hands. " This whirling... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1873 - 136 strani
...distance of a from (3. Now stand facing the Pole-star. Then all the stars are travelling round that star in a direction contrary to that in which the hands of a watch move. Thus tLe stars below the pole are moving towards the right, those above the pole towards... | |
 | Ellen Eliza Fitz - 1876 - 138 strani
...moves in its orbit from west to east. A motion of revolution from west to east may be defined as motion in a direction contrary to that in which the hands of a clock move, the spectator being supposed to be situated at the north pole, of the earth and sun in their respective... | |
 | William Henry Rosser - 1876 - 176 strani
...these cases, when the storm is an equatorial one, whirlwinds are produced in the northern hemisphere in a direction contrary to that in which the hands of a watch move : and in the southern hemisphere in the same direction as the hands of a ivatch move. Hence... | |
 | William Henry Rosser - 1876 - 184 strani
...these cases, when the storm is an equatorial one, whirlwinds are produced in the northern hemisphere in a direction contrary to that in which the hands of a watch move : and in the southern hemisphere in the same direction as the hands of a watch move. Hence... | |
 | 1881 - 396 strani
...high pressure, an anti-Cyclone. In the northern hemisphere the wind in the case of a Cyclone blows in a direction contrary to that in which the hands of a watch move, while in an an ti- Cyclone the movement is similar to that of watch hands. We have said... | |
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In the northern hemisphere the cyclone rotates in a direction contrary to that in which the hands of a clock move, but in the southern hemisphere the rotation coincides with the movement of the hands. 
