Units of speed are always a unit of length per unit of time. Different units of length and time may be chosen depending on the situation. This makes it easier to read the measurements. For example, ...

Swimmer Eric Shanteau placed third in the 200-meter breaststroke at the U.S. Olympic trials with a time of 2:10.05. This gives him an average speed of 1.538 m/s. Of course, this wasn’t his speed the ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. Equations relating speed and mass go back to Newton and beyond. But after I got geeky with an equation for ...

Power management often becomes even more important in high-speed, high-power systems. To begin with, the worst-case power consumption basically sets board layout requirements for dissipating heat. But ...

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