NIST Helping Improve Speed Measurements for Cars, Bullets
Thursday, May 21, 2009 - 10:28
in Physics & Chemistry
Two speed measuring devices used by the law enforcement community--the down-the-road (DTR) radar with which officers enforce automobile speed limits and the ballistic chronograph which tracks the velocity of bullets during testing of protective equipment--soon should be more useful tools thanks to recent research conducted at NIST.
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