Recent questions tagged measurements

Description : How tall is 6 feet 6 inches?

Last Answer : 1.9812 meters 6 and a half feet 6 feet 6 inches Taller than the average man.

Description : Is a shadow on the ground, cast by sunlight, the same width as the object that cast it?

Last Answer : answer:Yes. The rays of light are all parallel to each other because they all come from the sun, which is very, very far away. There will always be some fuzziness at the shadow's edges ... accurate IF you measure the wall's shadow along a line parallel to the wall-otherwise you need trigonometry.

Description : How would an amount of antimatter be measured for sale?

Last Answer : By the amount of matter displaced.

Description : What size flag is this?

Last Answer : answer:The general ratio of a US Flag is 1:1.9 The men standing are about the height of three stripes, and given an estimate of 5'10 average height, the flag is about 25 feet high. The flag should ... high, 19 feet wide. The one in the picture is too square; it should extend more to the right.

Description : Can a man's penis size be compared the same way as a woman's breast size?

Last Answer : I think I know what you're asking. But you might have over thought it and tried to use numbers and science haha. In the same way some men go, Oh my goodness look at those tits. You're asking if ... with dudes. I'm an attractive guy, but I don't look for the biggest and fattest tits out there. I

Description : How much hate is enough to warrant repercussions?

Last Answer : answer:I hate finding stupid grammar and other mistakes after the editing time has elapsed. *I am of the strong opinion that bigotry and hate in any amount need to be held up to the light and shown for the evil they are.

Description : Is there a formula that can calculate rainfall on a gallons-per-square-mile basis?

Last Answer : answer:It's a relatively straightforward conversion problem. Once you figure out how big the drops are (and if you have a good count of drops per minute per area) then it's not hard at all. The tough ... but your example is close enough to that). EDIT: 1 Acre-Foot of water is 325,852 US gallons.

Description : Do people outside of the US use rulers in US Customary and Metric, or just metric?

Last Answer : My tape measure is calibrated in British Units (inches, feet, yards) and Metric units. I have a metre stick similarly calibrated and a ruler around 12” long with both sets of units.

Description : What would you like to see (globally) standardized?

Last Answer : answer:The metric system. The Farenheit scale, which is much more precise than Centigrade degrees (smaller increments). Ladies' clothing and shoe sizes. Men's sizes are uniform; why shouldn't the ... obese women, and that size 2 is average. Whatever happended to standard-sized windows and doors?

Description : How much loose leaf tea do you use in a tea pot?

Last Answer : I have found, mainly through trial and error and folklore, that the cup' is an ordinary drinking-out-of cup/ mug, and spoon' is a teaspoon. I use one heaped teaspoon of the tea per number of cups and, as you ... out of it, too much water will result in weak tea! (I do not live in Boston . . . .)

Description : How can I measure oxygen content in the air?

Last Answer : answer:Did you wake up this morning? Then, there’s plenty of oxygen in your room. lol Okay…seriously…I don’t know, but look….science Cy charges in…—waiting, waiting to learn something new.

Description : What does the pixel size of a font actually measure?

Last Answer : answer:I believe it's baseline to the top of a typical ascender. So in Toy , it would be from the top of the T to the bottom of the o . They're still scalable even with pixels, but ... typical web safe fonts seem to stay pretty close together. Outside of that, you'll see a lot of variance.

Description : I need to know how many feet is 122 cm......(centimeters)

Last Answer : answer:4.00262467 feet — 2.54 centimeters == 1 inch. So… 122cm x (1in ÷ 2.54cm) x (12in ÷ 1ft) = 4.00262467 feet

Description : Is there truly an accurate way to measure the sea level of a location?

Last Answer : The technology for altimeters has changed over time. Some use pressure measurements and others use satellites (GPS technology) or radar to determine the altitude of a given place (you can use sea level as the base ... sense of just how high Denver is so one might be able to shed some light . . .

Description : What is the difference between the Richter Scale and the moment magnitude scale?

Last Answer : The moment magnitude scale has superseded the Richter scale. The values remain pretty similar.

Description : How do you calculate the cubic feet of a refrigerator?

Last Answer : Did your family pass high school maths? I kid. Click!

Description : Several Questions Rolled Into One: What measurements were originally used to determine foot size? Who was the first to measure feet for shoes? Why are the measurements different for men and women and different countries?

Last Answer : answer:The foot as a measure was used in almost all cultures and was usually divided into 12, sometimes 10 inches/thumbs or into 16 fingers/digits. The first known standard foot measure was from ... the international foot is defined to be equal to 0.3048 metres (equivalent to 304.8 millimetres).

Description : Describe the need of level measurements.

Last Answer : In almost all industries, vast quantities of liquid such as water ,solvents, chemicals etc. are used in number of processes. It is widely employed to monitor as well as measure ... and therefore its measurement becomes important in a variety of processes encountered in modern manufacturing plants.

Description : Gross errors occur in measurements because of (A) disturbances about which we are unaware. (B) human mistakes. (C) inherent shortcomings in the instrument. (D) loading effects on the meters.

Last Answer : Gross errors occur in measurements because of human mistakes.

Last Answer : For measurements on high voltage capacitors, the suitable bridge is Schering bridge.

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