Sentences with phrase «faster at lower altitudes»

The clock's mechanical parts left its accuracy at the mercy of shifting temperatures, pressures and even Earth's gravitational pull, since pendulums swing faster at lower altitudes and at Earth's poles.

Not exact matches

However, since fermentation of sugar is faster at higher altitudes, breads rise in one - third the time noted for lower altitudes.

Mountain air contains less oxygen than air at lower altitudes, so breathing it causes the heart to beat faster and the body to burn more energy.

Pilots would like to take advantage of the low drag at high altitudes to go faster, but a naturally aspirated engine does not produce enough power at the same altitude to do so.

When ascending the dry air cools much faster and low altitudes, at high altitudes the difference is small.

The faster cooling at low altitudes makes it possible and even likely that the initial difference is reversed.

Lower - altitude glaciers below about 17,700 feet (5400 meters) above sea level are melting twice as fast as those at higher elevations.