Below you will find example sentences with "escape velocity". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Escape Velocity in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: escape
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.8 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "escape velocity" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 35 the escape velocity at a, an earth escape velocity of 11, orbit, speed and object stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with escape room, escape rooms, escape room and escape rooms, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with escape velocity
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The apparent inconsistency arises because escape velocity depends on where you start your journey. (14 words)
Copies of the first two Escape Velocity games will work without limitation for 30 days. (15 words)
A human colony on Jupiter would be less practical due to its high gravity, escape velocity, and radiation. (18 words)
If a photon rocket begins its journey in low earth orbit, then one year of thrusting may be required to achieve an earth escape velocity of 11.2 km/s if the vehicle is already in orbit at a velocity of 9,100 m/s. (45 words)
When there are many gravitating bodies, such as in the solar system, a rocket that travels at escape velocity from one body, say Earth, will not travel to an infinite distance because it needs an even higher speed to escape the Sun's gravity. (44 words)
In the case of an open orbit, the speed at any position of the orbit is at least the escape velocity for that position, in the case of a closed orbit, the speed is always less than the escape velocity. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
The velocity corresponding to the circular orbit is sometimes called the first cosmic velocity, whereas in this context the escape velocity is referred to as the second cosmic velocity.
An object following a parabolic orbit would travel at the exact escape velocity of the object it orbits; objects in elliptical or hyperbolic orbits travel at less or greater than escape velocity, respectively.
Escape velocity is actually a speed (not a velocity) because it does not specify a direction: no matter what the direction of travel is, the object can escape the gravitational field (provided its path does not intersect the planet).
For a mass equal to a Saturn V rocket, the escape velocity relative to the launch pad is 253.5 am /s (8 nanometers per year) faster than the escape velocity relative to the mutual center of mass.
For systems of two bodies the term "escape velocity" is ambiguous, but it is usually intended to mean the barycentric escape velocity of the less massive body.
In the case of an open orbit, the speed at any position of the orbit is at least the escape velocity for that position, in the case of a closed orbit, the speed is always less than the escape velocity.
Bate, Mueller and White, p. 35 The escape velocity at a given height is times the speed in a circular orbit at the same height, (compare this with the velocity equation in circular orbit ).
If a photon rocket begins its journey in low earth orbit, then one year of thrusting may be required to achieve an earth escape velocity of 11.2 km/s if the vehicle is already in orbit at a velocity of 9,100 m/s.
Internally, close encounters between stars can increase the velocity of a member beyond the escape velocity of the cluster.
Many open clusters are inherently unstable, with a small enough mass that the escape velocity of the system is lower than the average velocity of the constituent stars.
The mean velocity of these particles is about 145 km/s, which is well below the solar escape velocity of 618 km/s.
When there are many gravitating bodies, such as in the solar system, a rocket that travels at escape velocity from one body, say Earth, will not travel to an infinite distance because it needs an even higher speed to escape the Sun's gravity.
The apparent inconsistency arises because escape velocity depends on where you start your journey.
A human colony on Jupiter would be less practical due to its high gravity, escape velocity, and radiation.
Copies of the first two Escape Velocity games will work without limitation for 30 days.
Given escape velocity perpendicular to a massive body, the object will move away from the body, slowing forever and approaching but never reaching zero speed.
In 1926–1929, Tsiolkovsky solved the practical problem regarding the role played by rocket fuel in getting to escape velocity and leaving the Earth.
Launching into deep space An object attached to a space elevator at a radius of approximately 53,100 km would be at escape velocity when released.
Long-period comets travel close to the Sun's escape velocity while they are moving through the inner solar system, so their paths are close to being parabolic.
More generally, escape velocity is the speed at which the sum of an object's kinetic energy and its gravitational potential energy is equal to zero.