Sentences with phrase «speed at impact»

Since most pedestrian accidents occur in non-intersection areas, the negligent drivers are often traveling at full speed at impact.

You are going to create incredible ball speeds at impact, and launch them high and straight.

Not exact matches

Despite the TV industry's perception that it is at the top of the entertainment food chain, at some point the impact of this shift becomes inescapable, just as newspaper and music companies eventually had to admit that the shifts they were seeing in consumer and advertising behavior were more than just a speed bump.

Well, at a time when people are saying that the arrival of that robot is a net loss because of displacement, you ought to be willing to raise the tax level and even slow down the speed of that adoption somewhat to figure out, «OK, what about the communities where this has a particularly big impact?

«Had the Model S impacted the front or rear of the trailer, even at high speed, its advanced crash safety system would likely have prevented serious injury as it has in numerous other similar incidents,» Tesla said.

The factors that most impact timing are how quickly you file the necessary paperwork, the speed at which your current custodian (the firm that handles your original retirement account) releases your funds and which state the corporation is filed in (some states are faster than others).

Speed Volunteering makes it easier for people to give a little bit of time while still making a positive impact — in just a couple of hours, on a one - off basis, and at short notice.

Product impact is also reduced even when operating at high speeds and product movement is maintained despite challenging wet environments and cold temperatures that are typical for frozen food manufacturers.

Impact mills use concentric rings of stainless steel fins to smack the grain at a very high speed, instantly bursting it into a powder.

Carson used his explosive first step and speed to make an instant impact at Arizona State.

It was a pretty hefty shunt, similar to Antonio Giovinazzi's FP1 crash, but at a slightly higher speed and with a double impact.

Due to the high speeds and nature of the Eau Rouge / Raidillon section at Spa - Francorchamps, crashing there is always going to be a fairly hefty impact.

Landry struggles to convert speed to power at times, and fails to make an impact when defending the run.

There does not seem to be a set timetable for Cronin's return, so the speed at which MNUFC's coaching staff can integrate Fernando into the team may have a significant impact on the start of Minnesota's season.

The former Arsenal winger added much needed speed to the forward line at Goodison Park and he had an immediate impact, grabbing an assist against West Brom on his debut before netting twice in a 2 - 1 win over Leicester City.

The Test focuses on forward and rear impacts, particularly at very high speeds.

After investigating, police determined the cause of the fatal accident to be speeding, stating that the driver had been going between 80 and 90 MPH at the time of impact.

Those questions included whether the mayor thinks recent criticism directed at him, on the driving flap and other actions, is fair, whether he thinks the speeding flap will negatively impact his efforts at implementing the Vision Zero plan, whether the mayor has discretion to direct how the NYPD drives him and whether his NYPD detail thought they were being followed by WCBS - TV news.

These manifest themselves quite differently in different member states, depending on the speed at which the substances become available and the severity of their impact on public health.

We're speeding up evolution by billions of years,» Venter told an energy conference on October 18 at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. «It's hard to imagine a part of humanity not substantially impacted.»

Rosetta, never designed to land, was probably badly damaged on impact, despite coming in at a speed of just 1 metre per second.

«As you might expect, increasing the speed of impact does increase the proportion of algae that die,» Pasini explains, «but even at 6.93 kilometres per second, a small proportion survived.

The Vertical Gun Range employs a 14 - foot cannon that fires small projectiles at up to 16,000 miles per hour, while impact plates and high - speed cameras record the ballistic dynamics.

Schultz's experiments showed that vapor plumes travel outward from an impact point, just above the impact surface, at incredible speeds.

He has been studying impacts and impact processes for years using NASA's Vertical Gun Range, a high - powered cannon that can fire projectiles at speeds up to 15,000 miles per hour.

Ed Glenn of the University of Arizona studied the impact on the delta, and saw native trees growing at speeds that seem otherworldly.

«We always underestimate the impact of these types of technologies, but we also overestimate the speed at which they'll be adopted.

If a driver slams on the brakes just before it smashes into a wall, the impact will still occur, but at a slower speed, decreasing the g - forces that the driver experiences.

This jet, moving at perhaps 4,000 miles per hour, or more than five times the speed of sound in air, strikes so quickly that water molecules do not have time to flow away from the point of impact.

For the particles to have an effect, the impact must be extremely intense, such as that caused by a firearm or micrometeorites (objects the size of grains of sand capable of hitting satellites at the speed of ten kilometres per second).

«Speed reductions, which are known to reduce emissions, would need to be maintained over a very long - term period in order to produce regional air quality benefits,» said James Corbett, a professor of marine policy at the University of Delaware, who has studied the impact of the shipping industry on human health.

The models simulated the impact of an object large enough to create a basin of Sputnik Planum's size hitting Pluto at a speed expected for that part in the solar system.

Sputnik Planitia's unique attributes have spurred a number of scenarios for its formation, all of which identify the feature as an impact basin, a depression created by a smaller body striking Pluto at extremely high speed.

«Meteoroids from asteroids only impact Mercury at a fraction of that speed.»

A collision that produces little energy passes through the impacted material at no more than the speed of sound.

The impacts, at speeds up to 1.5 kilometers per second, pummeled the amino acids with up to 200,000 times Earth's atmospheric pressure and temperatures as high as 600 °C.

A separate team from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and the University of California, Santa Cruz, simulated the effect of impacts made at different energies, speeds and angles on the Martian crust.

That will speed the green impact of electric vehicles, said environmental science professor Huo Hong at the elite Tsinghua university.

After a quick draining the Impact stunned everyone with its performance; not only did it leave a Miata and a Nissan 300ZX in its dust in a head - to - head, standing - start race to 60 mph, but even when cruising at highway speeds it retained enough kick to press a driver into the seat when the accelerator was stomped — a benefit of its high - rpm, gearless powertrain.

«Because Suomi NPP moves at a similar speed as the debris object, if there had been an impact, it would have occurred at a combined speed of nearly 35,000 mph.

It would travel at a tenth of the speed of light, protect itself against impacts with dust particles and be piloted by a computer capable of controlling the craft without help from Earth.

The Centaur crashed into the moon at about 2.5 kilometers per second, roughly one quarter the speed of the impactor that struck Comet Tempel 1 in 2005 as part of NASA's Deep Impact mission.

Shown at slow (top), medium (middle) and high impact speeds (bottom), the changing impact forces illuminated in each frame help explain why soil and sand get stronger when they are struck harder.

But at higher speeds, the force chains grow more extensive, which causes the impact energy to move away from the point of impact much faster than predicted by previous models.

He's been focused on the study of impact - induced shear waves, which jostle tissue with relatively slow, side - to - side forces, in contrast to the better - studied compression waves that travel in the direction of impact at the speed of sound.

«Problems with memory, executive function, and processing speed are common symptoms of bipolar disorder, and have a direct and negative impact on an individual's daily functioning and overall quality of life,» said lead investigator Eve Lewandowski, PhD, director of clinical programming for one of McLean's schizophrenia and bipolar disorder programs and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.

In a recent study, a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Faculty of Engineering found that sand can absorb more than 85 per cent of the energy exerted against it, and its ability to resist the impact increases with the speed of the projectile, even at high velocities.

This ability to resist the impact increases with the speed of the projectile, even at high velocities.

«At a low enough impact speed, you actually deposit material.»

But impacts also throw small amounts of debris in hyper - velocity jets at speeds of 16 kilometers (10 miles) per second.