Sentence examples for metre per second from inspiring English sources
noun
An SI derived unit for measuring speed or velocity.
The Huang He averages 0.046 cubic metre per second per square kilometre, the Irrawaddy 0.032 cubic metre per second per square kilometre, the Magdalena and the Amazon 0.026 cubic metre per second per square kilometre, the Orinoco 0.021 cubic metre per second per square kilometre, and the Ganges-Brahmaputra above 0.024 cubic metre per second per square kilometre.
Slowly rotating, large axial turbines make use of tide stream velocities above 1 metre per second.
The kinetic viscosity at normal temperatures and pressures is about 10−6 square metre per second for water and about 1.5 × 10−5 square metre per second for air.
All you would need is a light breeze, around half a metre per second," said Hofgartner, whose study appeared in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Suppose the car only warrants a six-second phase but a pedestrian requires 18 seconds to cross the street at a walking speed of one metre per second.
It is defined as that force necessary to provide a mass of one kilogram with an acceleration of one metre per second per second.
An advanced version of this machine installed at Manhattan, Kan., during the 1970s generated five kilowatts of electric power in a 12-metre-per-second wind.
For example, if velocity is expressed in metres per second, acceleration will be expressed in metres per second per second.
Light speed reduction to 17 metres per second in an ultracold atomic gas.
Average speeds were typically less than 2 metres per second (4.5 miles per hour), although gusts up to 40 metres per second (90 miles per hour) were recorded.
It can operate in waves as high as eight metres, winds up to 23 metres per second, and currents as strong as 1.3 metres per second.
