Within moments it reached a speed of 2 revolutions per second.

A good washing machine spins about 15 revolutions per second.

In flight the missile spins at between five and seven revolutions per second.

Both beams completed their circle nearly at the speed of light, making approximately 47 000 revolutions per second.

It spins in both directions, at a rate as high as 120 revolutions per second.

One, the pulsar, is a neutron star spinning at 100 revolutions per second.

At many revolutions per second I came down the green slide into Brixton and beyond.

The fact that the ship was tumbling end-over-end at 2.06 revolutions per second also supported this theory.

Then we can place a different ion in the same magnetic field and measure how many revolutions per second that executes.

A free buckyball rotates merrily through space at one hundred million revolutions per second.

Neutron stars are created in supernovae explosions and spin at rates up to hundreds of revolutions per second.

He and his research group also discovered the first X-ray pulsar with a rotation speed of four hundred revolutions per second."

She watched, staying out of the way of the control jets, until the huge cylinder was again spinning around at five revolutions per second.

After a half-million years the star had cooled, and its spin speed had slowed to only five revolutions per second.

You must multiply the rotational speed in revolutions per second by 2 pi to get the angular velocity.

Uranium, mixed with fluorine and heated to a gas, is spun in a metal tube at more than 1,000 revolutions per second.

To counteract the 41-million-gee gravitational pull from the nearby star, their spacecraft had to orbit about the star at five revolutions per second.

The oscillator is a part of a continuous feedback circuit, which holds the speed of the generator close to eight revolutions per second.

Most U.S. kinescope situations, however, utilized a mechanical shutter, revolving at 24 revolutions per second.

The number of revolutions per second (the frequency) is proportional to the magnetic field strength and inversely proportional to the ion's mass.

Right before release, the pitcher's elbow straightens at a rate of 2,000 degrees per second, or the equivalent of 5.5 full revolutions per second.

The spacecraft was to be spin-stabilized at 1.8 revolutions per second, the spin direction approximately perpendicular to the geomagnetic meridian planes of the trajectory.

The weight of this monitor limits the rate of update, allowing only five revolutions per second, obtaining only five independent points of view.

The radio frequency emitted by an Alexanderson alternator in hertz is the product of the number of stator pole pairs and the revolutions per second.

These motors have rotors, axles and bearings, and an unloaded motor in a healthy, well-fed bacterium can spin at 200 revolutions per second."