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What is the term for a measure of the distance a wave travels over time?
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What is meant by the term light year?
the distance light travels in one year. light travels at around 300,000,000 metres per second. 1 year has 31,556,962 seconds in it, therefore a light-year is approximately 9,467,088,600,000,000 metres.
What is the scientific term for a measure of the amount of force needed to move an object a certain distance?
There is no such term, because the distance an object moves does not directly depend on the force that acts on it.
What is the term for the measure of thermal energy in the atmosphere?
what is the term for the measure of thermal energy in the atmosphere
What is the difference between instantaneous velocity and instantaneous speed?
Speed, instantaneous or not, is a term used for how fast an object travels. Velocity, instantaneous or not, is a term used for how fast an object travels in a particular direction.
How is motion and speed the same?
Motion is a very general term - it means movement of an object. Speed is a specific term - it is a measure of how far an object travels per unit time - for example 100 miles per hour, 2 meters per second, etc. Motion consists of speed and acceleration, and can be linear or rotary.
What is the astonomical term for the distance light travels in a year?
A light year.
What is the term for the measure of the distance of the equator?
latitude
What term is measure of the distance from the equator?
Latitude.
What is the term for the distance an object travels in a certain direction in a certain time?
it is its speed
What term used for the measure for the distance from the equator?
latitude
Discuss the use of the term light year in relation to space and astronomy?
A light year is the distance that light travels in a year, so it is a measure of distance, not time. Light travels at about 186,000 miles per second or about 300,000 kilometres per second. There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year. There is about 5,869,713,600,000 miles in a light year or about 9,445,950,434,500 kilometres.
What tearm is used to describe the distance an object travels divided by the elasped time?
The term "speed" is.
What term is used to measure the distance at sea?
nautical mile
What term is used to describe the distance the piston travels from TDC to bdc when calculating compression ratio?
stroke
What term is a measure of the distance north or south of the equator?
Lines of Latitude.
What does the term Administrative Distance refer to?
A measure of the trustworthiness of a routing information source
What is a Bhattacharyya distance?
A Bhattacharyya distance is another term for a Hellinger distance, a measure used to quantify the similarity between two probability distributions.
