Local Vertical

Some articles on local, local vertical:

Eötvös Effect - Physical Explanation - Explanation of The Cosine in The First Term - Motion Along 60 Degrees Latitude
... latitude, the component that is perpendicular to the local surface (the local vertical) is half the total force ... + 25 = 258 m/s, which requires a centripetal force of about 0.208 newton local vertical component about 0.104 newton. 208 m/s, which requires a centripetal force of about 0.135 newton local vertical component about 0.068 newton ...

Famous quotes containing the words vertical and/or local:

    “In bourgeois society, the French and the industrial revolution transformed the authorization of political space. The political revolution put an end to the formalized hierarchy of the ancien regimé.... Concurrently, the industrial revolution subverted the social hierarchy upon which the old political space was based. It transformed the experience of society from one of vertical hierarchy to one of horizontal class stratification.”
    —Donald M. Lowe, U.S. historian, educator. History of Bourgeois Perception, ch. 4, University of Chicago Press (1982)

    “Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)