Sentences with phrase «many times per second»

Users are checking in at the rate of 34 times per second and they are doing so in every city, in every country in the world.

It records three - dimensional data about foot striking patterns — up to 50 times per second — for real - time analysis via app.

- The odd and even frames flash so rapidly - 30 times per second each - that it looks like a complete picture.

Some very rough calculations gives 30,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules in earth's ecosphere, each one interacting with other molecules 4,000,000,000 times per second, over a billion years which is 30,000,000,000,000,000 seconds.

And if you take a single protein such as t.itin, assembling the components randomly even tens of thousands of times per second and discarding each incorrect version would, in that time, completely fill the universe with the debris — a sphere of 14bn light years diameter, because you have a number so inconceivably vast it would have more than 29,000 zeroes (compared to a number with only 17 zeros for all the seconds so far since the universe began).

I don't agree but I understand: If you were 80 years old already (a rough estimate for an average human life span), you would have to hear someone tell you that they had turned their back on organized religion about 6050 times per second for your entire life just to pay off the national debt.

It uses a super accurate sensor to measure the water 5 times per second and quickly tells you what you need to know.

Pulsar timing detectors are best for sensing waves in which years pass between peaks; ground - based interferometers perk up when hit by waves oscillating hundreds of times per second.

The hairyflower wild petunia (Ruellia ciliatiflora) shoots seeds that spin up to 1,660 times per second, which helps them fly farther, researchers report March 7 in Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

To hover, the bot flaps its translucent wings 220 to 300 times per second, somewhat faster than a housefly.

As part of the potential XCOM demonstration, NavCube will drive the electronics for a device called the Modulated X-ray Source, or MXS, which generates rapid - fire X-ray pulses, turning on and off many times per second.

Using lasers to clear leaves was first proposed in 1999 by a UK company called LaserThor, which developed a laser with a temperature of 5000 °C that was strong enough to zap leaves 25,000 times per second.

The number of times per second that the atoms shift back and forth defines the wave's frequency, experienced by the human eardrum and brain as pitch.

The 10 collars deployed in the second field season accumulated 252 days of data, recording acceleration in 3 dimensions at 40 times per second and taking a GPS fix every second too.

To find out, they joined with undergraduate Stephen Wilk and set up a strobe light that flashed either 60 or 120 times per second.

But data does not persist for long and must be refreshed over 100 times per second to maintain its memory.

Astronomers have known since 1968 that a pulsar — an ultradense neutron star left behind when the star's core collapsed — spins 30 times per second within the Crab's expanding cloud of debris, emitting a lighthouse beam of radio waves.

In attacking the air - blurred starlight, his weapon of choice will be a run - of - the - mill adaptive optics system augmented by another more «extreme» version that uses 2,000 computer - controlled actuators to correct atmospheric distortions by flexing a deformable mirror more than 3,600 times per second.

Hydrogel beads bounce thousands of times per second on a heated surface, emitting a high - pitched shriek, and generating lots of kinetic energy

Water molecules are linked together by hydrogen bonds that break and form several thousands of billions of times per second.

Some servers can now loop from memory to processor and back around a few hundred - million times per second.

The sound oscillates ten billion times per second: far more rapid than human ears can hear.

The nebula contains a pulsar in its centre which rotates thirty times per second, emitting pulses of radiation from gamma rays to radio waves.

A team led by archaeologist Damian Evans beamed a laser pulse 200,000 times per second from the helicopter toward the dense forest below.

Gamma waves that cycle 30 to 80 times per second (30 to 80 hertz) help coordinate information streaming in from our senses — what we feel, see and smell.

A new clock reliably ticks nearly one million billion times per second and could be the most accurate clock ever made, report physicists in a paper published online by Science on 12 July.

They placed the electrodes next to the fornix — a bundle of neurons that carries signals to and from the hippocampus — and left them there, delivering tiny pulses of electricity 130 times per second.

Accelerating electrons through a series of these cavities allows the generation of an almost continuous X-ray laser beam with pulses that are 10,000 times brighter, on average, than those of LCLS and arrive up to a million times per second.

The plate is coupled to a superconducting electrical circuit as the plate vibrates at a rate of 3.5 million times per second.

A woodpecker's head experiences decelerations of 1200g as it drums on a tree up to 22 times per second.

The implosion of the core causes it to rotate rapidly, up to hundreds of times per second.

Although the pitch depends on the number of times per second the vocal cords collide — ranging from as few as 55 times per second for a low A sung by a bass, to 1,047 times per second for a soprano's high C — the refinement and articulation of the musical notes take place in the singer's throat and mouth.

But, improvements at the shorter optical wavelengths would require deforming a mirror 1000 times per second.

The satellite is destined for an orbit 438 miles above Earth and will use a spectrometer to measure CO2 concentrations in the air 24 times per second

The new study finds that the supernovae are likely powered by the creation of a magnetar, an extraordinarily magnetized neutron star spinning hundreds of times per second.

These include reaction chambers that can withstand repeated blasts for years on end, lasers that can fire high - energy pulses many times per second, and techniques to manufacture the tiny target capsules — a commercial plant may use more than a million per day.

The entire housing rolls away on rails to help the telescope cool to ambient temperature; an adaptive optics system adjusts 1,000 times per second to remove atmospheric blurring.

And yet commands travel from the console to each robotic joint at a rate of up to 400 times per second.

Even better than the real thing, the NIST synapse can fire much faster than the human brain — 1 billion times per second, compared to a brain cell's 50 times per second — using just a whiff of energy, about one ten - thousandth as much as a human synapse.

Chemists» efforts to study the inner workings of dirhodium metal complex reactions have been hindered by their extreme efficiency and speed, reacting at about 300 times per second.

The core oscillates 300 times per second, sending out sound waves a little higher than middle C on a piano, which zoom through the star at 70 million miles per hour.

Neurons in the mouse olfactory bulb fire in a relatively narrow range, up to a few hundred times per second.

Tiny black holes could be less than a meter across and orbit each other a million times per second; cosmic strings are loops in space - time that vibrate at the speed of light.

Modern observatories use «adaptive optics» — computer - controlled deformable mirrors that change shape thousands of times per second — to cancel out the worst effects of atmospheric turbulence on starlight.

Despite the wide range of sizes and weights, «all the dogs sniffed at about the same frequency, five times per second,» says Craven.

This makes it possible to oscillate the grating at a frequency of up to one kilohertz and to thereby tune the wavelength of the laser source up to a thousand times per second over a very wide spectral range.

They are incredibly dense, packing about as much mass as the Sun into a sphere just 20 kilometres or so across, and some rotate hundreds of times per second.

Astronomers tested for changes in the gravitational constant using 21 years of data from a pulsar (the ultradense remnant core of a dead star that spins like a crazed lighthouse, sending astronomers bursts of light a thousand times per second).

Buried deep in the jumble of jagged peaks are two tiny signals: one wave rising and falling 12 times per second and another rising and falling 15 times per second.

«BigDog is reacting at 1,000 times per second as it tries to keep its center of gravity,» Mandelbaum says.