prime mover

Examples of prime mover in the following topics:

• How Skeletal Muscles Produce Movements

  • Agonist muscles are those we typically associate with movement itself, and are thus sometimes referred to as prime movers.
  • The biceps brachii is the agonist, or primer mover, responsible for flexing the forearm.

• Navigation Acts

  • Two prime movers behind the protests against the Sugar Act were Samuel Adams and James Otis,, both of Massachusetts.

• Petrarch

  • During his travels, he collected crumbling Latin manuscripts and was a prime mover in the recovery of knowledge from writers of Rome and Greece.

• The Thermidorian Reaction

  • The prime mover, however, for the events of Thermidor 9 was a Montagnard conspiracy, led by Jean-Lambert Tallien and Bourdon de l'Oise, which was gradually coalescing and was to come to pass at the time when the Montagnards had finally swayed the deputies of the Right over to their side (Robespierre and Saint-Just were themselves Montagnards).  

• Speed of Innovation

  • A first-mover in a given innovation captures the obvious advantage of tapping into a new market before its competitors.
  • These branding hurdles must be tackled by any competitor following in the footsteps of the first-mover.
  • First-movers encounter serious disadvantages, the most notable of which are freeloaders.
  • First-movers also encounter high fiscal risks in integrating a new product or services into their distribution, and failure often means sunk costs.
  • Similarly, first movers must carefully consider cannibalization—where their new innovative products steal sales from their older products still on store shelves.

• [PF content: The Prime Minister]

• Factors

  • Such prime numbers are called prime factors.
  • Therefore, 2 and 3 are prime factors of 6.
  • However, 6 is not a prime factor.
  • In this case, we must reduce 6 to its prime factors as well.
  • We have now found factors for 12 that are all prime numbers.

• Unconscious Perception

  • The perceptual learning of unconscious processing occurs through priming.
  • This is one of the simplest examples of priming.
  • One example of priming is in the childhood game Simon Says.
  • Simon is able to trick the players because of priming.
  • The participants who had been primed with rude words interrupted the investigator most often, and those primed with polite words did so the least often.

• Analyzing 12-tone music

  • The prime form of the row is the main form to which all other forms are referenced.
  • Any row form that is the same as, or a strict transposition of, that opening prime form is also a prime form.
  • Once you have labeled the main prime form at the beginning of the piece, any subsequent row that is an exact transposition of that row is prime.
  • If the prime form begins on G (7), it is P7; on B (11), P11.
  • Its interval content, then, are the reverse of the prime forms.

• Length Contraction

  • Let's look at the results with the aether again.If we have a rod of length $L_0$ in the primed frame what it is length in the unprimed frame.
  • Notices that someone in the primed frame would claim that the person measured the position of one end of the stick at a different time from the other.