time constant in English

noun
1
a time that represents the speed with which a particular system can respond to change, typically equal to the time taken for a specified parameter to vary by a factor of 1- 1 / e (approximately 0.6321).
The hyperinflation may be explained completely by the time constant of the respiratory system exceeding the time available for tidal exhalation.

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1. Time constant clutch actuator

2. The Atmospheric time constant t 0 is often referred to as the Greenwood time constant, after Darryl Greenwood

3. The time constant of the tube electrometer is 2,5 and 25 sec resp.

4. In one embodiment, the AC-coupled data slicer (905) is characterized by a settling time constant.

5. Note that the time constant of an RC circuit equals the product of the resistance and capacitance.

6. Seebeck coefficient, d.c. resistivity, activation energy, drift mobilityΜ and time constant measurements are presented for all samples.

7. Accordingly, the optimum acceleration/deceleration time constant can be decided and the machining time can be reduced.

8. Over time, constant acid leakage from heartburn may form scar tissue which narrows the esophageal tube, making it harder to swallow food.

9. Non-symmetrical waveforms can be obtained by installing one set of RC Astable time constant components that is larger than the other.

10. The thermal time constant of the heating elements is several minutes, so that the temperature fluctuations are too small to matter in practice.

11. The time constant of the integrator is altered in such a way that the altitude is adapted depending on the maximum possible altitude error.

12. The residual error is charted for variant conditions (direction of heading, rolling period and acceleration amplitude, ballistic time constant, geographical latitude, time function, persistent deflexion).

13. A Bolometer can be fabricated up to ten times smaller than the desired radiation wavelength to increase its sensitivity and to reduce its time constant

14. Using a so-called "Charge amplifier " with "Long" time constant allow accurate measurement lasting many hours for large loads to many minutes for small loads.

15. It can be mathematically proven that the working frequency of the controller is increased and the time constant of the object is reduced by using cascaded PID controllers..

16. 18 This system bases on semiconductor modulated laser, which replaces blackbody radiation source, and uses the technology of VC call MATLAB realizing graphic model output and time constant calculate.

17. The Bolometers are well-described by a simple, one-pole electrothermal model with a natural time constant τ 0 that we adjust by varying the leg geometry and the amount of PdAu thermal ballast on the bolometer island.

18. Additionally, a resistance control system is provided to automatically measure the resistance of a sample 25, determine a capacitance and determine a parallel add-on resistance R2 that substantially provides a desired pulse duration (time constant) for an electroporation pulse.

19. The Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS) and Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (DIRBE) instruments on COBE require Bolometers with short time constant, high throughput, low Noise Equivalent Power (NEP) and immunity to microphonic noise.Art Serlemitsos developed state-of-the-art composite Bolometers that …

20. The suppression of the capacity value over the zero polarization range increases witht, the time constant of this slow adsorption process being independent of the frequency of the ac bridge and decreasing from 175 msec forc=2.5×10−5M to almost zero forc=10−3M.

21. The time constant of a resistance - Capacitance circuit is: T = R X C where T = time in seconds where R = resistance in ohms where C = Capacitance in farads The time in this formula is the time to acquire 63% of the voltage value of the source

22. The tomography system includes a detector (14) characterized by at least one afterglow amplitude and at least one afterglow time constant, and a sampling device (318) for generating a plurality of samples xi for all i from zero to MAX minus one of the detector output signal.