To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.roboticsOpen lugnet.robotics in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Robotics / 8689
8688  |  8690
Subject: 
Re: IR scanner
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:37:58 GMT
Original-From: 
Pete Hardie <PETE.HARDIE@DVSG.SCIATL.stopspammersCOM>
Viewed: 
778 times
  
Nick Taylor wrote:

Your numbers aren't quite correct.  The speed of light is
982,080,000 fps or 0.000,000,001,018 seconds per foot.  That
yields a value of 0.002036 microseconds for a "radar foot";

That's my fault - I missed the button on the calculator, and
so the fps value in my original post was off.

--
Pete Hardie                   |   Goalie, DVSG Dart Team
Scientific Atlanta            |
Digital Video Services Group  |



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: IR scanner
 
Your numbers aren't quite correct. The speed of light is 982,080,000 fps or 0.000,000,001,018 seconds per foot. That yields a value of 0.002036 microseconds for a "radar foot"; 12 inches out, 12 inches back. You are NOT going to measure distance (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)

11 Messages in This Thread:





Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR