parabola
The plane made a parabolic dive back to 24,000 feet.
Looking back, we can see the long parabolic curve of the town and the ocean.
The six rows of parabolic mirrors track the sun.

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Examples of parabolic

parabolic
Again, the rejection rate is significantly higher under co-operation and exhibits the same parabolic pattern.
These, when held at their extremities, he said, naturally accommodate the curvatures of parabolic lines.
In particular, the resulting parabolic map is topologically conjugate to the hyperbolic function it originated from.
Global analysis of the dynamical system defined by travelling-wave solutions to the associated parabolic equation plays a crucial role in this theory.
Other parabolic velocity distributions containing some arbitrary constants but lacking the factor expi(k- k*)x) can be added to those obtained above.
Our first result about condensation of at parabolic points is the following.
Subjects favored a sine wave path over the parabolic trajectory, and generally all paths of some continuous curvature were judged to be fairly natural.
It is not difficult to check that all the requirements of a parabolic system are satisfied.
There were sixteen speakers with parabolic reflectors, each playing sound from one of the sources around the country.
We do not see a symmetrization effect in the limit which is valid for a wide class of (eventually) uniformly parabolic equations.
This indicates that when the parabolic profile is used for the axial velocity the characteristic functions are more difficult to approximate.
Knowing this one finds immediately that the inertial correction to the electric potential has a parabolic behaviour along magnetic field lines.
This property is shared by the unfoldings of finite codimension parabolic germs.
The following theorem allows us to conclude that a t -semiconformal measure is conformal provided the parabolic orbits do not mix.
If, for example, the attractor of the parabolic limit equation is chaotic, then trajectories are sensitive to perturbations.
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