Sentences with phrase «length is the distance»

Focal length is the distance from the «focal point» of your telescope to the lens or mirror.

Muscle moment arm lengths are the distances between the perpendicular force that is applied, and the joint.

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Revd Haslam said: «It's certainly the biggest challenge I've ever attempted and when Steve and I added up the stats and realised completing the whole length involved climbing a total of 35,000 m with an average daily distance of 45 miles, it is fair to say we wondered what we were taking on.»

At length within shouting distance, Ahimaaz called, «All is well,» then, out of breath, launched on a formal announcement of victory.

We're going to discuss this at length once I do the one year recap post on life as an ex-long distance runner turned heavy weight lifter (because I'm a firm believer that the shift in my training regimen is what sparked the shift in my diet), but for now you should know that not much is going to change around these parts.

There's also a length of domination factor to consider, which is where the WCAL starts to put distance from the other two.

That would set the grid for the sprint race, which would be around 100 km in length (so one - third of the full race distance), and the result of that would set the grid for Sunday's grand prix.

He's got a huge driving distance advantage over Spieth, but Sawgrass is one of the few courses left in pro golf that can inhibit that length.

Measuring approximately 3 «Öì feet in length, a wink up from this distance is almost, but not quite, as rare as a hole in one in golf.

In addition, the course's measured distance of 7,216 yards was not a true indication of its length.

The three campers I was tied to, at distances of about 18 feet, were very friendly, and the middle two were in love; their frequent conferences made the total length of our rope often shorter than it should have been.

Johnson's length with the driver (second in PGA Tour driving distance by an eyelash to J.B. Holmes — 312.8 yards to 312.5) is no secret.

Smaller distances between players allows them to exchange passes at a shorter length, and as the ball moves quickly between positions, it's difficult for the defenders to get close enough to tackle their man.

I'm sitting here hoping to god that there are no SD's, cord prolapses, placental abruptions or other things that require prompt expert care, and for which a 40 - minute trip to the nearest hospital won't be even nearly adequate (not sure of the length of trip for both couples, but that is the distance for one of them in light traffic).

Some measurements which will likely be taken include the distance around your little one's abdomen (abdominal circumference), the distance across your baby's head, the distance around the outside of your baby's head (head circumference) and the length of your baby's upper leg bones (femur length).

3) Episiotomy Parameters Linked to Risk for Injury During Birth Emma Hitt, PhD Authors and Disclosures March 8, 2012 — Increased depth and length of episiotomy, as well as increased distance from the midline to incision point, are associated with decreased risk for obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS), according to a new study.

You are leaning over your baby, and your face is at the perfect arms - length distance for engaging eye contact and communication.

By 6 months of age, a baby is able to follow you about the room with his or her eyes and can spot you entering a room across the length of a room and if you smile, even from that distance, it is visible to your baby.

Allow more following distance for motorcycles — two or three car lengths is recommended, more if the roads are wet or visibility is poor.

Democratic candidates this cycle have gone to great lengths to distance themselves from their party leaders, but West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin's (D) remarks over the weekend demonstrated just how far Democrats in competitive races are willing to go.

These results indicate that the polymers studied have large cross sections for stimulated emission, that population inversion can be achieved at low pump energies, and that the emitted photons travel distances greater than the gain length within the gain medium.

It consists of muscles that deform a stretchable lens to change the focal length, the distance between the lens and the point at which rays of light are brought to a focus.

This method simulates the distances in space across which absorption measurements are taken, but in a sample length of 75 cm.

Currently, the unmanned system can work for distances around 1 to 3 meters away, but the researchers would like to make the system effective at 100 - meter distances, which is nearly the length of a football field, Dunn said.

Gore and his colleagues call this distance the «recovery length» and believe it could be observed in real - world environments with habitats of different levels of fitness.

This is limited, in turn, by the smallest possible distance that can be defined in the universe, referred to as the Planck length, which is 10 - 20 of the diameter of a proton.

If they can create black holes, they will have reached the Planck scale, which is believed to be the shortest meaningful length, the limiting distance below which the very notions of space and length probably cease to exist.

A statistical comparison of facial traits of European Americans and African Americans — forehead - chin distance, ear height, nose width and distance between pupils, for example — with other body traits — forearm length, height at waist, etc. — showed that facial traits are, on average, more varied than the others.

Parkin's group found that the reason for the tidy relation between pulse length and distance traveled was not that the domain walls had no inertia but simply that the acceleration and coasting phases of their motion balance out.

More recently, seamen and engineers alike have dismissed them as easily explainable: If you know the speed and direction of the wind, if you know the distance over which it has been blowing and the depth of the water, you can predict the height, length, speed, and even the frequency of any wave.

Some previous studies had found that the distance covered by a domain wall was directly proportional to the length of the electric pulse used to drive it, hinting that perhaps domain walls move without inertia — that is, they move at top speed or not at all.

Researchers who study or are working to make pillared graphene have primarily viewed two characteristics of the theoretical material: the length of the pillars and their distance from each other.

The number of short trips walked also fell in tandem with an increase in this length of journey taken by bus, although there was no appreciable impact on total distance walked.

In 1983, for example, the platinum - iridium bar that described the length of the meter yielded to a new benchmark: A meter is now defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299, 792,458 second (a second being the time it takes an atom of cesium - 133 to vacillate 9,192,631,770 times between the two hyperfine levels of its ground state).

«Based on our earlier studies, if the ant was striking a prey object, the distance between the ant and the prey was about the length of the trigger hairs that come off the mandibles,» Suarez said.

There's a new long - distance insect flyer in town: a tiny dragonfly a mere 4 centimeters in length that wings its way over oceans and continents.

The distance record — held by an unbloated frog — is 20 body lengths.

Bins were constructed by using an algorithm in which each bin contained approximately equal numbers of participants with bin length defined by distance in base pairs.

The length of the Hawaiian Ridge segment alone, from the Big Island northwest to Midway Island, is about equal to the distance from Washington, D.C. to Denver, Colorado (2,600 km).

The researchers set the height of the fluid channel to be comparable to a few of the pairing distance lengths, so that interaction between the pairs and the walls alters the balance toward the A phase over the B phase.

Surprisingly, when they placed the real plants on the graph according to their actual nutrient travel distances and total branch lengths, the plants fell almost perfectly on the Pareto curve, meaning that plants» networks of branches are finding the best balance between cost and performance for their particular environment.

«Our hypothesis was that if total length and travel distance were important evolutionary criteria for plants, there would be evolutionary pressure to minimize the criteria together, and that's actually what we found,» says Ullas Pedmale, who was a postdoctoral researcher on the project and is now an assistant professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Straight line distance, boundary length, or the area of a polygon can all be measured.

Neurite length was calculated using the following formula; NL = α × T × (π / 2), where α is the number of times the neurite intersects the grid lines and T is the distance between the gridlines on the magnified image (taking into account the magnification factor) or was calculated using ImageJ analysis software.

The original configuration of LIGO was sensitive enough to detect a change in the lengths of the 4 - kilometer arms by a distance one - thousandth the diameter of a proton; this is like accurately measuring the distance from Earth to the nearest star — over four light - years — to within the width of a human hair.

Track or interval workout: These speed - focused workouts are built of short - to moderate - length distances that then provide a break of active - or standing - recovery periods.

What's more: This connected version has a built - in sensor that connects to an app on your phone via Bluetooth and tracks your runs, offering all kinds of pertinent info from pace and cadence to stride length and distance.

Indeed, some researchers have observed that muscle fascicle length tends to be longer in elite 100m sprinters than long - distance runners as well as in less - well - trained sprinters (Kumagi et al. 1985; Abe et al. 2001; Lee & Plaza, 2009), although this has not always been reported (Methenitis et al. 2015) and when it comes to certain sports, the relationship may of course be muscle - specific, depending on the contribution of the muscle being investigated to performance in that sport.

Since the pot rack needed to stretch across a distance that was beyond the length of the rod included I used a wooden dowel.

Her fifth full - length book is a guide to flourishing in a long - distance relationship, which is a topic she knows plenty about; her husband is active duty military and is frequently deployed.