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Speed

1. In mortgage-backed securities, the estimated rate at which homeowners will pay off the underlying mortgages of an MBS. The equivalent of the coupon on a mortgage-backed security is a percentage of the interest and principal paid on the mortgages backing the security. A risk associated with mortgage-backed securities is that too many homeowners will pay off their mortgages with too much speed, depriving the holder of the MBS from future interest payments.

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From the gradient of graph, find the speed of sound in air at your room temperature.

Innovative use of smart phones: for a sound resonance tube experiment

where t is the time of flight (TOF), s is the one-way travel distance or the thickness of the material, and c is the speed of sound in the material.

In-line ultrasonic monitoring for sediments stuck on inner wall of a polyvinyl chloride pipe

At typical airliner altitudes, the speed of sound is about 1,060 kilometers (660 miles) per hour.

Futuristic flight

After reaching an undisclosed suborbital altitude, the aircraft jettisoned from its protective cover atop the rocket, then nose-dived back toward Earth, leveled out and was supposed to glide above the Pacific at 20 times the speed of sound.

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The problem when using Equations 6 and 7 is that the actual speed of sound in the roll body is not known.

Modelling a chilled cast thermo roll utilising ultrasonic measurement

Isentropic compressibility is related to speed of sound and density by the relation: [[beta].sub.s] = [u.sup.-2][[rho].sup.-1] (19)

Ultrasonic velocity and isentropic compressibility of binary fluid mixtures at 298.15 K

The resonant frequency of any tube depends on the length of the tube and the speed of sound through it.

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Austrian Pilot Felix Baumgartner has announced his intention to expand the boundaries of aerospace exploration by attempting to become the first person ever to break the speed of sound with the human body.

Mission to the edge of space

Supersonic means faster than the speed of sound, which is about 760 miles per hour in air.

Supersonic splash

In it he tackles love, life, the speed of sound, Dire Straits and Bananarama.

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YOU'D have thought that a song called Ferrari would speed along at the speed of sound but this second single from the former Birmingham University student and Michael Jackson look alike chugs lazily rather than soars sweetly.