Once an estimate of an animal's path is obtained biologists often need to calculate speed of and distance of travel, generate spatial representations of an animal's use of space in terms of time spent in geographic regions, metabolic effort or other measure of resource allocation.
There is some dispute about the fastest movements in nature, in large part because of different ways of calculating speed, such as acceleration or sustained velocity.
Sometimes, you may calculate speed in one set of units but need it in another.
Neuroscientists have long thought that the brain does this by calculating the speed of the moving object.
While attending public school in a small town of central Illinois, Leddy remembers his physics teacher Todd Keating writing a song about calculating the speed of objects.
From debating relativity and the use of slang in the future to printing purple fanzines and calculating the speed of spaceships, fans' enthusiastic industry revealed the tensions between popular science and modern science.
Our software and sensors are good at tracking multiple objects and calculating the speed of oncoming vehicles, enabling us to judge when there's a big enough gap to safely make the turn.
As far as calculating the speed of the plane after it has landed - that's difficult because, as Capt Hollingworth told me, once you land and decelerate, it's not possible to then speed the plane up and take off again - as happens in the film.
"You have to go from Leo's subjective point of view to an objective point of view back to Leo's subjective point of view, all while calculating the speed of the extras, the distance of the camera and so many other factors," Lubezki said.
Calculating the speed of the wave-front from the Δ V t) or Δ V t)rel tends to underestimate the velocity of propagation as higher amplitude levels tended to move more slowly.
