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fluid dynamics (ratio of drag force to inertia for a bluff object in oscillatory fluid flow) Knudsen number: Kn = gas dynamics (ratio of the molecular mean free path length to a representative physical length scale) Kutateladze number: Ku
the statistical confidence interval or tolerance interval of the initial measurement; the number of significant figures of the measurement; the intended use of the measurement, including the engineering tolerances; historical definitions of the units and their derivatives used in old measurements; e.g., international foot vs. US survey foot.
All data are inexact and statistical in nature. Thus the definition of measurement is: "A set of observations that reduce uncertainty where the result is expressed as a quantity." [17] This definition is implied in what scientists actually do when they measure something and report both the mean and statistics of the measurements. In practical ...
jiffy (physics) 3 × 10 −24 s: The amount of time light takes to travel one fermi (about the size of a nucleon) in a vacuum. zeptosecond: 10 −21 s: One sextillionth of a second. Time measurement scale of the NIST and JILA strontium atomic clock. Smallest fragment of time currently measurable is 247 zeptoseconds. [3] attosecond: 10 −18 s
The period (symbol T) is the interval of time between events, so the period is the reciprocal of the frequency: T = 1/f. [ 2 ] Frequency is an important parameter used in science and engineering to specify the rate of oscillatory and vibratory phenomena, such as mechanical vibrations, audio signals ( sound ), radio waves , and light .
Since in relativity any velocity v is constrained to the interval −c < v < c the ratio v / c satisfies −1 < v / c < 1. The inverse hyperbolic tangent has the unit interval (−1, 1) for its domain and the whole real line for its image; that is, the interval −c < v < c maps onto −∞ < w < ∞.
Level of measurement or scale of measure is a classification that describes the nature of information within the values assigned to variables. [1] Psychologist Stanley Smith Stevens developed the best-known classification with four levels, or scales, of measurement: nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio.
The ratio of width to height of standard-definition television. In mathematics, a ratio (/ ˈ r eɪ ʃ (i) oʊ /) shows how many times one number contains another. For example, if there are eight oranges and six lemons in a bowl of fruit, then the ratio of oranges to lemons is eight to six (that is, 8:6, which is equivalent to the ratio 4:3).