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...With momentum from the victory, the team will look to continue its winning ways against the Georgetown Hoyas (0-1) tomorrow in Washington...
...against the Hoyas would provide the momentum necessary for the Crimson to improve on last season’s 8-5 record. Even with the pressure on its shoulders, the team still remains optimistic in its chances of defeating Georgetown to continue its currently undefeated season...
...shift the Earth's inclination, or figure axis (the axis around which the Earth's mass is balanced, which is slightly different from the north-south axis around which the Earth rotates) - in the case of the Chile earthquake, by about three inches. The law of conservation of angular momentum, however, requires that even under these exigent circumstances, the Earth's angular momentum stays constant, which means the planet must step on the gas (or the brake) to accommodate shifting mass. The same thing happened in 2004 with the 9.1 Sumatran earthquake that triggered the tsunami. That earthquake should have...
...physics seems a bit arcane, consider that you probably spent much of the past two weeks seeing the angular-momentum principle in action - at least if you watched the Olympics. Earthquakes change the Earth's rotation the same way a twirling figure skater changes hers - by extending or tucking her arms in, for instance, to slow down or speed up accordingly. The only difference is that the skater does so decidedly more elegantly...
...hometown Vancouver Canucks and was serenaded with chants of "Louuuuu" throughout his exemplary game. American Zack Parise pounced on the puck, and knocked the rebound past Luongo to tie things up. Are you kidding me? Do you believe in miracles? Going into overtime, the Americans controlled every molecule of momentum. "We thought we were going to win, for sure," says U.S. defenseman Jack Johnson...