Proper velocity addition formula: where formula_3 is the beta factor given by formula_4. or in terms of logarithms: Proper velocity is useful for comparing the speed of objects with momentum per unit rest mass ("w") greater than lightspeed "c". The coordinate speed of such objects is generally near lightspeed, whereas proper velocity tells us how rapidly they are covering ground on "traveling-object clocks". This is important for example if, like some cosmic ray particles, the traveling objects have a finite lifetime. Proper velocity also clues us in to the object's momentum, which has no upper bound. For example, a 45 GeV electron
Velocity air meter of the air - and the ECU cannot distinguish, for a given door angle, whether the air is less dense but traveling faster or whether the air is denser but traveling more slowly. Therefore air velocity must be corrected for air density (temperature and barometric pressure) in order to reflect air mass (actual number of air molecules entering the engine per unit of time). Velocity air meters from Bosch have been commonly used on systems such as older Bosch L-Jetronic and as a part of many factory systems, though they now have mostly been superseded by mass airflow sensors which