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  2. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    10 2: hectosecond hs minutes (1 hs = 1 min 40 s = 100 s) 2 hs (3 min 20 s): The average length of the most popular YouTube videos as of January 2017 [15] 5.55 hs (9 min 12 s): The longest videos in the above study 7.1 hs (11 m 50 s): The time for a human walking at average speed of 1.4 m/s to walk 1 kilometre 10 3: kilosecond ks minutes, hours ...

  3. Speed of light - Wikipedia

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    In 1856, Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Rudolf Kohlrausch had used c for a different constant that was later shown to equal √ 2 times the speed of light in vacuum. Historically, the symbol V was used as an alternative symbol for the speed of light, introduced by James Clerk Maxwell in 1865. In 1894, Paul Drude redefined c with its modern meaning.

  4. Order of magnitude - Wikipedia

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    An order-of-magnitude estimate of a variable, whose precise value is unknown, is an estimate rounded to the nearest power of ten. For example, an order-of-magnitude estimate for a variable between about 3 billion and 30 billion (such as the human population of the Earth) is 10 billion. To round a number to its nearest order of magnitude, one ...

  5. Speed - Wikipedia

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    L T−1. In kinematics, the speed (commonly referred to as v) of an object is the magnitude of the change of its position over time or the magnitude of the change of its position per unit of time; it is thus a scalar quantity. [ 1] The average speed of an object in an interval of time is the distance travelled by the object divided by the ...

  6. Picosecond - Wikipedia

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    Picosecond. A picosecond (abbreviated as ps) is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to 10 −12 or (one trillionth) of a second. That is one trillionth, or one millionth of one millionth of a second, or 0.000 000 000 001 seconds. A picosecond is to one second as one second is to approximately 31,689 years.

  7. Metre per second - Wikipedia

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    3.2808. The metre per second is the unit of both speed (a scalar quantity) and velocity (a vector quantity, which has direction and magnitude) in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the speed of a body covering a distance of one metre in a time of one second. According to the definition of metre, [ 1] 1 m/s is exactly of the speed ...

  8. Acceleration - Wikipedia

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    In mechanics, acceleration is the rate of change of the velocity of an object with respect to time. Acceleration is one of several components of kinematics, the study of motion. Accelerations are vector quantities (in that they have magnitude and direction ). [1] [2] The orientation of an object's acceleration is given by the orientation of the ...

  9. Mathematical coincidence - Wikipedia

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    This is a pure coincidence, as the metre was originally defined as 1 / 10 000 000 of the distance between the Earth's pole and equator along the surface at sea level, and the Earth's circumference just happens to be about 2/15 of a light-second. [40] It is also roughly equal to one foot per nanosecond (the actual number is 0.9836 ft/ns).