Sentences with phrase «affect radio waves»

Magnetic fields affect radio waves that travel through them.

Disturbances in the ionosphere can affect radio waves.

Not exact matches

If A affects B without being right next to it, then the effect in question must be indirect — the effect in question must be something that gets transmitted by means of a chain of events in which each event brings about the next one directly, in a manner that smoothly spans the distance from A to B. Every time we think we can come up with an exception to this intuition — say, flipping a switch that turns on city street lights (but then we realize that this happens through wires) or listening to a BBC radio broadcast (but then we realize that radio waves propagate through the air)-- it turns out that we have not, in fact, thought of an exception.

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If The King's Speech risks being too cute by half in its depiction of how this royal without a voice comes to find one in his nation's hour of need, Hooper and screenwriter David Seidler neatly avoid that trap by training their sights on a much bigger subject — namely, how the wireless waves of radio affected seismic changes to the nature of politics and society at large, turning public figures into performers, and narrowing the distance between classes.

Communication from the ground to satellites is affected by space weather as a result of perturbations of the ionosphere, which can reflect, refract, or absorb radio waves.