Sentences with phrase «microseconds before»

Just when you thought you have gotten the perfect focus by tapping on your subject, the device decides to hunt for focus again microseconds before you tap the shutter button.

Occasionally the film cuts to a blurred image of what appears to be Pullman shaking his head and screaming, to me looking like Pullman in the electric chair, apparently referencing Ambrose Bierce's famous short story An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge in which a convict about to be hanged imagines an entire last minute escape and flight home in the microseconds before his death.

«Each one lived for only a few microseconds before collisions with other particles tore it apart.

The new detector system was triggered by a neutron or gamma - ray strike, and then matched that to any sonoluminescent flash that happened within 10 microseconds before or after the strike.

Scientists believe it orchestrates the rehearsal of focused activity, in the microseconds before you decide to squeeze a dynamometer, say.

Their results showed that a typical raindrop — roughly 2 millimetres wide and travelling at a few metres per second — compresses air in front of it a few microseconds before hitting a solid surface.

A long time means that — for modern electronics, it's a long time — it takes half a millisecond for the photon to go from A to B, so if you decide something like a few tenths of a microsecond before, then that's a long time.

Not exact matches

Combining the inputs from all the sensors on microsecond timescales — something that has never been done before — will allow the researchers to capture a stroke as it ignites, accelerates, and moves charge.

Because high - frequency trading algorithms (HFTs) can work at blistering speeds — a trade every 60 microseconds is common — a lot can happen before humans have a chance to intervene.

The processes (absorption of light, collisional energy transfer and emission) can be separated because the average time that an isolated CO2 molecule takes before it emits a photon is much longer that the time for collisional de-excitation (~ tens of microseconds at atmospheric pressure, less, higher in the atmosphere).

The mechanism as I have been taught (painfully) in the site, is because the addition of GHG absorbtion causes the energy to stay in the GHG for a few extra microseconds of residence time before the energy is (mostly) returned to the air by molecular collisions, as the energy is transported from ground to space an a series of millions -LRB-?)

The time interval between molecular colliwsions is a few nanoseconds; but the lifetimes of the excited states, can be microseconds to milliseconds; so the energy is lost in collisions, before the molecule gets a chance to re-radiate.