principle of equivalence
等价交换原则,等效原则,等价原则,等值原则
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Physics.
- : the principle that, in any small region of space-time, the effects of a gravitational field are indistinguishable from those of an appropriate acceleration of the frame of reference.
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Nuclear clocks could also test a foundation of Einstein’s gravity theory — the equivalence principle.
In confirming Galileo’s gravity experiment yet again, the result upholds the equivalence principle, a foundation of Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity.
But the qualities Mario Cuomo brought to public life—compassion, integrity, commitment to principle—remain in short supply today.
Nixon said defending the two islands was “a matter of principle.”
Bratton might have said something that was closer to a real-world moral equivalence.
He was trying, I think, to demonstrate balance and equivalence.
If the noble experiment of American democracy is to mean anything, it is fidelity to the principle of freedom.
Many so-called "humming tones" are given for practice, but in accepting them observe whether the foregoing principle is obeyed.
The grand thing is to have each of your five fingers go "dum, dum," an equal number of times, which is the principle of all three!
He had hitherto lived for universal man:—his days should terminate on a different principle.
The gauge of railways in Great Britain was not fixed upon any scientific principle.
I have erected above 100 steam-engines on this principle, but never met with one accident or complaint against them.