Anemometer use is constructed from a ping-pong ball attached to a string. When the wind blows horizontally, it presses on and moves the ball; because ping-pong balls are very lightweight, they move easily in light winds. Measuring the angle between the string-ball apparatus and the vertical gives an estimate of the wind speed. This type of anemometer is mostly used for middle-school level instruction, which most students make on their own, but a similar device was also flown on Phoenix Mars Lander. The first designs of anemometers that measure the pressure were divided into plate and tube classes. These are the
Signed measure finite signed measure is given by for all "A" in Σ. This signed measure takes only finite values. To allow it to take +∞ as a value, one needs to replace the assumption about "f" being absolutely integrable with the more relaxed condition where "f"("x") = max(−"f"("x"), 0) is the negative part of "f". What follows are two results which will imply that an extended signed measure is the difference of two nonnegative measures, and a finite signed measure is the difference of two finite non-negative measures. The Hahn decomposition theorem states that given a signed measure μ, there exist