Sentence examples for millimetre per second from inspiring English sources

A 'nudge', imparted a few years before the threatened impact, would only need to change an asteroid's velocity by a millimetre per second in order to deflect its path away from the Earth".

Plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) typically involves hundreds to thousands of discharges per square millimetre per second.

While the particles themselves can move quite slowly, sometimes with an average drift velocity only fractions of a millimetre per second, the electric field that drives them itself propagates at close to the speed of light, enabling electrical signals to pass rapidly along wires.

In the context of CM, the dynamic viscosity (usually given in millipascal second (mPa s)) and the kinematic viscosity (usually given in square millimetre per second (mm/s)) are most relevant.

"Then it travels along thirty feet of path at one thousand three hundred and fifty millimetres per second, changing speed and direction at accelerations reaching 3g".

The rod and the crucible are then rotated in opposite directions while the rod is slowly withdrawn a few millimetres per second.

"And the velocity of Rosetta - we need to know to a few millimetres per second.

It could be understood only if the spacecraft had picked up about 4 millimetres per second more speed than they were expecting.

However, since this original description from the early 1990s, US technology has developed immensely and newer machines allow blood flow imaging of vessels with very small diameter (<100 µm) and slow flow rates of only a few millimetres per second.

For example, if a cube has an acceleration of 1000 millimetres per second squared (always measure in millimetres) and the force exerted is 2 kilograms millimetres per second squared, then the cube must weigh 2 grams.

The tool, shaped like the cavity to be produced, oscillates at an amplitude of about 0.0005 to 0.0025 inch (0.013 to 0.062 millimetre) at 19,000 to 40,000 hertz (cycles per second).