{"id":7775,"date":"2017-01-25T08:31:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T14:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7775"},"modified":"2017-01-25T08:31:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T14:31:40","slug":"word-of-the-day-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/01\/25\/word-of-the-day-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Barycenter<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <b>barycenter<\/b> (or <b>barycentre<\/b>; from the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Ancient Greek language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancient_Greek_language\">Ancient Greek<\/a> <span lang=\"grc\" xml:lang=\"grc\">\u03b2\u03b1\u03c1\u03cd\u03c2<\/span> <i>heavy<\/i> + <span lang=\"grc\" xml:lang=\"grc\">\u03ba\u03ad\u03bd\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd<\/span> <i>centre<\/i><sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barycenter#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>) is the <a title=\"Center of mass\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_mass\">center of mass<\/a> of two or more bodies that are <a title=\"Orbit\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orbit\">orbiting<\/a> each other, or the point around which they both orbit. It is an important concept in fields such as <a title=\"Astronomy\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astronomy\">astronomy<\/a> and <a title=\"Astrophysics\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astrophysics\">astrophysics<\/a>. The distance from a body&#8217;s center of mass to the barycenter can be calculated as a simple <a title=\"Two-body problem\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Two-body_problem\">two-body problem<\/a>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barycenter\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Barycenter<\/strong> came up during a work lunchtime conversation concerning high blood pressure. Yeah, the participant had the grace to look embarrassed as he &#8220;crossed my medical neurons with my astrophysics neurons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But I get to learn a new word, so all is well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barycenter: The barycenter (or barycentre; from the Ancient Greek \u03b2\u03b1\u03c1\u03cd\u03c2 heavy + \u03ba\u03ad\u03bd\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd centre[1]) is the center of mass of two or more bodies that are orbiting each other, or the point around which they both orbit. It is an important concept in fields such as astronomy and astrophysics. The \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/01\/25\/word-of-the-day-81\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7776,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775\/revisions\/7776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}