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Archive for the ‘Articles’ CategoryPatrick Makau RecordSunday, September 25th, 2011Patrick Makau from Kenya brakes men’s marathon world record on Sunday, 25 september 2011 and wins Berlin marathon. He ran 42 km and 195 meters (26.2188 miles) in 2 hours 3 minutes 38 seconds. The previous record was set by Haile Gebrselassie (Ethiopia) in 2008 on the same Berlin course. Patrick Makau average speed during his winning marathon race in Berlin was: 42.195m/2h3m38s = 20.48km/h or 12.72 miles/hour (as you can compute in our speed calculator) Neutrino SpeedFriday, September 23rd, 2011According to the Albert Einstein theory, speed of light is the Universe’s ultimate speed limit, but an experiment that have been carrying by Dr Ereditato and his team for last three years suggest neutrinos can travel faster then light. This puzzling result from Cern has to be investigated for possible errors. As Dr Ereditato says: More about experiment (OPERA detector, measurement methods, data selection, conclusions) you can read on The OPERA neutrino experiment at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory has measured the US Open, current timeFriday, September 2nd, 2011Another big sport competition (except World Championships in Athletics mentioned in the previous post – Current time in Korea) currently being held is US Open – hardcourt tennis tournament which is a part of, so called, Grand Slam. Since 1978 has been played at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York City, USA. US Open 2011 is scheduled to be played from August 29 to September 11, 2011. More Info about NYC Time: Current Time Difference between NYC and: England’s chances to go out the groupTuesday, June 22nd, 2010Look at the below visualisation of the situation in FIFA 2010 World Cup’s Group C before last phase of the group stage. Each square of the drawing represents different result of the both last matches in group C (England vs. Slovenia and USA vs. Algeria) and colors on the drawing tell us who will be qualified to the next round. Below drawing of visual analysis comes from : FIFA 2010 Group C Analysis
Black, blue and gray squares indicate that England will be qualified. As you can see, if they win against Slovenia a least 1:0, they will be qualified to the next round. There are also some cases in which England will advance, if they draw the match (black squares in the middle of the drawing). There are also three pairs of interesting results (USA – Algeria 2:2,1:1,0:0 and England – Slovenia 1:1,2:2,3:3) marked by the black diamonds. In this case both teams have same number of points (3), same number of goals (3,4 or 5 depending on the result) and same number of goals scored in match between USA and England. Due to the terms of FIFA World Cup, drawing of lots will be needed to find the winner. Simon Ammann 108mSaturday, February 13th, 2010Simon Ammann won the gold Olympic Medal on HS106 ski jumping hill in Vancouver. He jumped 108m (118.1yd, 354.3ft). This is new hill record. Previous was set by Guido Landert and it was 105 meters (344.49ft) 1. Simon Ammann Swiss 105m (344.49ft) 135.5 108m (354.3ft) 141 276.50 Vancouver Sports Events DistancesTuesday, February 9th, 2010The tables below lists Vancouver sports events distances in kilometers, meters, miles, yards and feet. Click the link to go to length converter online and get more conversion units. Vancouver Men’s Sports Distances Conversion Table
Vancouver Womens’s Sports Distances Conversion Table
Tools: Distance Conversion Online Vancouver Ski Jumping HillsMonday, February 8th, 2010There are two ski jumping hills in the Vancouver’s Whistler Olympic Park – Large Hill (LH HS140/K125) and Normal Hill (NH HS106/K95). Technical data and the hill records (given in meters and feet) are available in the tables below.
Source: fisskijumping.com HillSize (HS) – distance between take-off and landing field where the gradient is equal to 32.5° (see: L-point on the image below) K-point (calculation line or calculation point) – Skiers are awarded 60 points if they land on the K Line. Skiers not landing on the K Line receive or lose points for every metre (3 ft) they miss the mark by, depending on if they surpass it or fall short, respectively. The value of a meter is determined from the size of the hill.
Useful tools: Length Converter Downhill skiing speedMonday, February 8th, 2010It should be obvious that the maximum and average speed in downhill skiing strongly depends on the course racer runs on. On a typical FIS-approved, international-level course racers can run about 130 km/h (80mph) but some courses can be faster. For example, in certain sections of “Streif” course in Kitzbühel, Austria racers can run up to 140 kilometers per hour (87 miles per hour) (Course Start at 1.665m/5462.6ft, finish 805m/2641.08ft, vertical drop 860m/2821.52ft, length 3.312m/10866.14ft, average gradient 27%, maximum gradient 85%, minimum gradient 2%) Right from the start, racers require a great deal of courage and self-confidence to fully charge the course, launching off to jumps of 50 m to 80 m at the sharp edge into Mausefalle. The Compression following Mausefalle has proved fatal to many a favorite in his struggle to resist the tremendous forces acting on him. (Source: hahnenkamm.com) Vancouver 2010 downhill men will run February 13th, 2010 on Dave Murray downhill track in Whistler Creek (length 3158m, vertical drop 853m, maximum gradient 47%, average gradient 28% Source:scribd.com ) Speed skiing Speed skiing official world records Useful tools: Speed Converter, Length Converter Human Height Conversion TableFriday, February 5th, 2010
The table allows you to fast and easily convert most common human heights between values given in feet and inches, inches and centimeters. There is no column for hight given in meters because conversion from centimeters to meters is extremely easy (1m is equal to 100cm. To divide number of centimeters by 100, move the decimal point two places to the right, after that value preceding the decimal point will refer to number of meters and two digits after decimal point will refer to number of centimeters. Example: 162.56cm is equal to 1.6256m is equal to a little more then 1 meter and 62cm).
The table lists only most common human heights (more then 95% of adult human population should meet the criteria: higher then 5 inches and shorter then 7ft 2in) but there are some interesting exceptions – the tallest and the shortest. (To make other conversions try height converter) Tallest People Shortest Men Shortest Women Game Online PONG PINGThursday, January 28th, 2010Are you tired of units conversion? …. changing meters to yards, fahrenheits to celsius, meters per seconds to feet per minutes, calculating speed could be a little boring We made simple javascript based, pong-like online game (do you remember first, hm … hard to say computer … maybe ‘an electronic game’. It seems to be an ancient game, right?). Rules are simple. Don’t allow the ball to hit the right side wall. It is called PONG PING because … why not? … it resembles a table tennis called PING PONG and the name seems to us … hm, … funny? Never mind, enjoy Here is the game –> PONG PING game online |
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