Todo:
v's: lunar solar molecular human-growth hair-growth
gold-bar-droop mountain-shortening
relativistic 1 and 10% thresholds
km/hr
light in media
m/s mph
[] 1 [0.4470 (international)][Vade 10]
1 2.237
10 22.37
100 223.7
200 for 224 is 10%
m/s mps
[] 1 [1609.3]
1 0.00062139
10^3 0.6
speed of sound in STP air 331.4 m/s [Cow p236]
From [Lindeburg fcover]:
earth escape 1.12 × 104
sound [SP/20C] air 344
m/s for m/x
1.7 × 10-2 min 0.6 × 102 s
2.8 × 10-4 hr 3.6 × 103 s
1.2 × 10-5 day 8.64 × 104 s
1.7 × 10-6 wk 6.048 × 105 s
0.38 × 10-6 mo(30.4day) 2.627 × 106 s
3.2 × 10-8 yr 3.156 × 107 s
3.2 × 10-9 10 yr
3.2 × 10-10 100 yr
3.2 × 10-11 1000 yr
3.2 × 10-12 10,000 yr
(Ended up just doing 10^x s /60/60/24/...)
From [Vade p75]:
planetary mean orbital velocity 30km/s E, 50 M, 5 P
From [Brandt scales1]:
2.2 x 10^{5} m s^{-1} Rotational velocity of the Sun around the Milky
Way's center
1 x 10^{-9} m s^{-1} Sea floor spreading rate
2 x 10^{-8} m s^{-1} Grass growth rate
3 x 10^{-6} m s^{-1} Typical glacial advance rate
100 m s^{-1} Typical speed of an electric pulse in the nervous
system
For mylinated axon?
480 m s^{-1} Earth's atmosphere molecular rms velocity
2380 m s^{-1} Escape velocity from Moon's surface
10000 m s^{-1} Typical longitudinal seismic wave velocity in the
Earth's mantle
Cytoplasmic streaming velocity in root hairs cells 1-7.0 um/s ref
How fast do bacterial cells move? They average 50 um/sec,
Average growth rate per day
Hairs on the head 0.35mm
Eyebrows 0.15mm
Mustaches (beards or whiskers) 0.4mm
Armpit hairs 0.3mm
Pubic hairs 0.2mm
From Some facts about hair[link broken].
Thus ~2-4 × 10-9 m/s.
Buckyballs are very rugged. They can survive collisions with metals and other materials at speeds in excess of 20,000 miles per hour,