An engineer designing a pulsed plasma accelerator must time discharges every 0.004 seconds. If each discharge pulse lasts 0.002 seconds, what fraction of each time interval is the pulse active?

March 11, 2026

$An engineer designing a pulsed plasma accelerator must time discharges every 0.004 seconds. If each discharge pulse lasts 0.002 seconds, what fraction of each time interval is the pulse active?$

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An engineer designing a pulsed plasma accelerator must time discharges every 0.004 seconds. If each discharge pulse lasts 0.002 seconds, what fraction of each time interval is the pulse active?

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