can lift the 403,342 ton pioneering spirit crane vessel 10 meters in 30 seconds as if it was a cork. this about 36 gj of work and 1gw of power. it’s a lot.
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waves carry in 2014, the newest generation of optical fibers use light waves to transmit an entire terabyte hard drive in 0.2 seconds
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in my life jacket, i was raised up 10 meters (33 feet) to the top of the wave and could see a rescue ship in the distance.
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in between crests, i was at the bottom of the between waves and all i could see was towering walls of water all around me.
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i estimated the distance between wave crests was 30 meters. the was 30 meters.
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i used my watch and timed that i went from crest to crest 10 times in 50 seconds. the of the waves was 0.2 hz (10 waves / 50 seconds = 0.2 waves per second)
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i estimated the of the waves was 10 meters. which means from the crest to the trough i was falling 20 meters (66 feet). the thought made me nauseated.
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i used my watch and timed that i went from crest to crest 10 times in 50 seconds. the was 5 seconds. (50 seconds for 10 waves / 10 waves = 5 seconds.)
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i estimated the distance between waves was 30 meters. and i had timed that the period was 5 seconds. the waves had a of 6 m/s. ( 30 m/5 seconds = 6 m/s)
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is a metric prefix, symbolized as a lower case m. it appears before the unit of measure. it is 1000 times smaller than the base unit (no prefix). 1000 munits = 1 unit. 1 munit = 0.001 unit