Sentences with phrase «precision measurements such»
The tick marks serve as stable reference points when making precision measurements such as those of the small shifts in starlight caused by planets pulling gravitationally on their parent stars.
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«Our car needs to be designed and built with such accuracy and precision that, if an owner measures dimensions, panel gaps, and flushness, and their measurements don't match the Model 3 specs, it just means that their measuring tape is wrong.»
The precision of the measurement is such that «a snail crawling on Mars would appear to be moving across the surface more than 100 times faster than the motion we measured for this galaxy,» says Reid.
The ability to control quantum noise could one day be used to improve the precision of very sensitive measurements, such as those obtained by LIGO, the Laser Interferometry Gravitational - wave Observatory, a Caltech - and - MIT - led project searching for signs of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space - time.
However, these so - called «standard candles» do vary slightly from one another, limiting the precision of such measurements.
Measurements of such precision, stretching over so many light - years, can be thrown off by the smallest errors, Cowie points out.
Earth - based observations in 2003 indicated plumes of methane on Mars (red), but higher - precision measurements on the planet's surface find no such gas.
State - of - the - art sensors, such as MRIs and atomic clocks, are capable of making measurements with exquisite precision.
Second, such measurements are limited in precision by the Heisenberg uncertainty prinCiple.
Such a sequence of pulses is known as «Ramsey sequence» and is used for high - precision measurements in many areas.
To get a better picture of the newfound world, astronomers would need a complementary observation, such as watching a partial eclipse (known as a transit) as the planet passes in front of its star, or making a precision measurement of the star's side - to - side motion in the sky.
As such, finding ways to reduce quantum noise can enhance the precision of measurement in the examples given above.
«Our experimental platform represents a testbed that can readily be upgraded for measurements with higher precision, by using a ultra-bright source of entangled photons, and higher - dimensional degrees of freedom, such as energy - time entanglement.»
The measurements allowed them to determine electron viscosity to such a high precision that the extracted values showed remarkable quantitative agreement with theory.
The capabilities of Test Cell 1 include a fuel / air combustion skid for energy input; cooling systems for heat removal; 130 kW eddy - current dynamometer for precision power measurements; and instrumentation, system protection, and power control channels.For measuring the thermal output of fuel - fired thermal energy systems, such as a gas - fired liquid - metal evaporator for Stirling engines, Test Cell 1 offers a gas - gap calorimeter, which simulates the engine by allowing the liquid metal to condense at operating temperatures.
Such monolithic interferometers will make it possible to build relatively inexpensive instruments that are easy to operate and capable of precision radial velocity measurements.
We describe a laboratory facility and experimental testbed that supports the emulation of a wide range of mission concepts such as gravitational weak lensing measurements by WFIRST and high precision spectrophotometry of transiting exoplanets by JWST.
They observed the sky for thousands of years and with such precision that their measurements of celestial events, such as the synodic period of Venus and the Maya calendar, were more precise than ours.
Taking as his starting point the measurements of the standardised niche, the artist installs the canvases (which are per se two - dimensional) with such extreme precision that the painting extends into the room.
Methods such as accurate water measurement and soil moisture monitoring, laser - leveling fields, using conservation tillage to retain soil moisture, switching to low energy precision application sprinklers, lining canals, and employing subsurface drip irrigation where possible could save upwards of 40 percent of agriculture's water use while improving crop yields and saving energy.
Perhaps in 8 years we can say < = 2 %, but the measurement by then will be sinking into the noise and such precision is unlikely.