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
Cylinder set measure "γ" is the standard Gaussian measure on R. The canonical Gaussian cylinder set measure on an infinite-dimensional separable Hilbert space "H" does not correspond to a true measure on "H". The proof is quite simple: the ball of radius "r" (and center 0) has measure at most equal to that of the ball of radius "r" in an "n"-dimensional Hilbert space, and this tends to 0 as "n" tends to infinity. So the ball of radius "r" has measure 0; as the Hilbert space is a countable union of such balls it also has measure 0, which is a contradiction.