Sentence examples for an inch per second from inspiring English sources

There was Matsuzaka delicately moving the ball through his delivery at about an inch per second, trying to keep his arm in the same slot.

He moved his bat through an imaginary strike zone about an inch per second, slowly picking up his right foot in the same methodical manner and trying to perfect his swing.

Once you get an atom really cold, so it's moving as fast as an ant walks, a fraction of an inch per second, then very, very weak forces can push them around, and you can do what you want with them -- for example, using electric or magnetic fields, or light.

When Nasa's robots first arrived at the International Space Station in 2006, they were only capable of precise movements using small jets of CO2, which propelled the devices forwards at around an inch per second.

Then, traveling on autopilot at the seemingly impossibly slow rate of less than an inch per second, the Soyuz glided toward the Mir.

The motions produced by seismic waves would activate a clock, and the recording surface (which tracked ground motion) advanced 1 cm (0.04 inch) per second, which would allow a reader to establish the timing of an earthquake's onset as well as its duration.

The accumulation that he estimates is already occurring would lower worldwide sea levels by one-tenth to four-tenths of an inch per year.

The total number of neutrinos from the Sun, they conclude, is about 35 million per square inch per second.

The writing speed that is, the relative motion of the tape past the rotating recording heads—is fast (more than 4,800 mm, or 200 inches, per second), though the transport speed of the tape through the machine is slow (in the region of 24 mm, or 1 inch, per second).

Considerable growth of the cloud droplets (with falling speeds of only about 1 cm, or 0.4 inch, per second) is therefore necessary if they are to fall through the cloud, survive evaporation in the unsaturated air below, and reach the ground as drizzle or rain.

You only want to move about one inch per second while you're using this recovery tool, Snyder says.