Sentences with phrase «per microsecond»

The length of the perimeter is an exact whole number of half - inches, the area in square centimetres is an integral number which is a perfect cube, and the speed of light in my dining room is 0.3 kilometres per microsecond.

Not exact matches

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.

However, in 1991 a Japanese group discovered that when they fired antiprotons into liquid helium, about 3 per cent lasted longer than expected — up to 15 microseconds.

For each of their rigs, described in full in the paper, the framing speeds are 20,000 - 40,000 frames per second, at a resolution of approximately 400 x 500 pixels with an exposure per frame of one to tens of microseconds.

The microsecond response times of the piezoelectric injectors provide the basis for delivering multiple injections per compression stroke, and thus for lean - burn operation.

The changes in LOD are probably something like microseconds per year, which makes the idea that it affects climate laughable.