Alex Foster’s debut novel, “Circular Motion,” is precisely 360 pages long, an appropriately exact total for a story about a near future in which international travel has been revolutionized ...

Instead it emerges in the dynamics: the crowd spontaneously decides between clockwise or counter-clockwise circular motion,” explains Guiselin ... Early results suggest that the oscillation period for ...

Where, as in the case of the crank and pitman, a rectilinear motion and circular motion are coupled, there may be a loss in the application of the power to useful work, always consequent upon the ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. A cam is a simple mechanism that converts rotary motion (movement that goes round in a circle) into linear motion ...