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Say whether these statements are TRUE or FALSE. 1. Robot revolution is a course of explosive growth of the number of computers

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1. Robot revolution is a course of explosive growth of the number of computers. 2. Today robots perform all routine tasks at our homes. 3. Nowadays robots look like human beings. 4. The research team has found out that people react better to a robot gym instructor than to instructions given on a computer screen. 5. Much of human interaction occurs unconsciously, through body language. 6. Robots should not be designed for killing or injuring humans.

2. Give synonyms to the following words from the text:

explosive, to develop, available, to design, everyday, to perform, sophisticated, to take place, an idea, to summarise, vulnerable, to achieve.

 

4. UK’s Atomic Clock is World’s Most Accurate

accuracy точність to collate порівнювати
to gain відновити a pursuit заняття
a fountain джерело on a par with нарівні з
required необхідний to bring about викликати
a flip оберт an oven піч
a trough мінімум to boost підвищувати
a cavity западина to collide стикатися
to expose піддавати чомусь to maintain підтримувати
to adjust пристосовувати to underpin підкріплювати
a pendulum маятник discrepancy розбіжність

An atomic clock at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has the best long-term accuracy of any in the world, research has found. Studies of the clock’s performance, to be published in the journal Metrologia, show it is nearly twice as accurate as previously thought. The clock would lose or gain less than a second in some 138 million years. The NPL’s CsF2 clock is a “caesium fountain” atomic clock, in which the “ticking” is provided by the measurement of the energy required to change a property of caesium atoms known as “spin”. By international definition, it is the electromagnetic waves required to accomplish this “spin flip” that are measured; when 9,192,631,770 peaks and troughs of these waves go by, one standard second passes. Inside the clock, caesium atoms are gathered into bunches of 100 million or so, and passed through a cavity where they are exposed to these electromagnetic waves. The colour, or frequency, is adjusted until the spins are seen to flip – then the researchers know the waves are at the right frequency to define the second.

The NPL – CsF2 clock provides an “atomic pendulum” against which the UK’s and the world’s clocks can be compared, ensuring they are all ticking at the same time. That correction is done at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) in the outskirts of Paris, which collates definitions of seconds from six “primary frequency standards” – CsF2 in the UK, two in France, and one each in the US, Germany and Japan. For those six high-precision atomic pendulums, absolute accuracy is a tireless pursuit. At the last count in 2010, the UK’s atomic clock was on a par with the best of them in terms of long-term accuracy: to about one part in 2,500,000,000,000,000 (twenty five hundred trillion).

But the measurements carried out at Pennsylvania State University in the US have nearly doubled the accuracy. The second’s strictest definition requires that the measurements are made in conditions that were impossible actually to achieve in the laboratory.

The team’s latest work addressed the errors in the measurement brought about by the “microwave cavity” that the atoms pass through (the waves used to flip spins are in the same part of the electromagnetic spectrum as the waves that flip water molecules in food, heating them in a microwave oven).

A fuller understanding of how the waves are distributed within it boosted the measurement’s accuracy, as did a more detailed treatment of what happens to the measurement when the millions of caesium atoms collide.

Without touching a thing, the team boosted the known accuracy of the machine to one part in 4,300,000,000,000,000.

Nowadays definitions for electrical units are based on accurate frequency measurements, so it’s vital for the UK as an economy to maintain a set of standards, a set of procedures that underpin technical development.

The fact that it’s possible now to develop the most accurate standard has quite measurable economic implications.


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