Sentence examples for accurate to seconds from inspiring English sources

The most accurate timekeeping devices are atomic clocks, which are accurate to seconds in many millions of years, and are used to calibrate other clocks and timekeeping instruments.

We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the monotonicity of finite volume discretizations and use these conditions to construct a monotone finite volume discretization accurate to second-order.

This symplectic algorithm is accurate to fourth order in the time step and preserves exactly the Poincaré-Cartan integral invariants associated with the topology of the phase flow.

The scheme is of Godunov-type in both explicit and implicit regimes, is in a strict conservation form, and is accurate to second-order in both space and time for all Courant numbers.

The scheme was proposed by Fryxellet al. (J. Comput. Phys.63,283 (1986)), is of the Godunov-type in both explicit and implicit regimes, is conservative, and is accurate to second order in both space and time for all Courant numbers.

In a second step, assuming the local energy-release-rate to be equal everywhere on the crack front to its critical value, we derive an expression of the shape of this front accurate to second order in the fluctuations of toughness of the material.

We can also expand Equation 3 to second order in s ^ and obtain another estimator for s, accurate to second order: s ^ = k 1 − k 1 2 − 4 k 2 (f T − f 0 ) 2 k 2 + O (s ^ 3 ),   where   k i = ∑ t = 0 T − 1 (f t ) i (1 − f t ).

Beidou - which translates as the Plough, or Big Dipper - promises to offer civilian users positioning information correct to the nearest 10m, measure speeds within 0.2m per second, and provide clock synchronisation signals accurate to 0.02 millionths of a second.

The measurements were accurate to the thousandths of a second, and were recorded to the nearest millisecond.

The technology is accurate to 10 seconds per year as compared to most other quartz watches, which are accurate to fifteen seconds per month.

And they got pretty good, with watches that were accurate to within seconds a day.