Sentences with phrase «as an organ pipe»

When the fluorescent molecules are excited, a sphere rings with light of specific wavelengths, just as an organ pipe rings with sound at a fundamental frequency and its overtones.

Not exact matches

Mirrors at the ends of each arm form a long «resonant cavity,» in which laser light of a precise wavelength bounces back and forth, resonating just as sound of a specific pitch rings in an organ pipe.

His work focuses on changing the architecture of the stomach and rerouting the small intestine, which is an exceedingly complex organ — hardly a homogeneous, 23 - foot pipe carrying food from the stomach to the large intestine, as was once believed.

As the water drained and the resonance frequency of the «organ pipe» dropped, the frog lowered its pitch, closely tracking the ideal pitch until it lost it.

Will we one day pipe the latest blog entry or NASCAR highlights directly into the human brain as if the organ were an outsize flash drive?

It's got a nicely hauntng and appropriate pipe organ score, but that's it as far as sound goes.

Inside the building, you can see stunning mosaic floors and a marble staircase, as well as a grand pipe organ and vintage stained glass.

Within this region, it inhabits scrubland habitats below 1,800 m (5,900 ft) dominated by plants such as cholla, Jatropha, and organ - pipe cactus, and in agricultural land.

The organ itself — an instrument the artist has investigated in previous works — registers as an object at the junction between music, technology, architecture, and religion, and these pipes, wrested from their original function, take on other morphological forms, appearing at once anthropomorphic, phallic, or torpedo - like, resting in their protective foam cases.

Tectonics Festival opens at the First Unitarian church, utilizing their pipe organ in works by Klaus Lang, as well as Feldman performed by James Rushford.

Beneath this exterior were modern conveniences such as an electrical generator, an internal telephone system with 21 stations, a built - in vacuum cleaning system, a central clock network, an elevator, and a great pipe organ, which made the home itself an instrument, a center of the city's rich musical life from 1905 until Eastman's death in 1932.

This marble fire surround as log store is the modern equivalent of Pirro Ligorio?s 16th - century designs for the spectacular and bizarre water fountains in the gardens at Villa d?Este, Tivoli, where galleons sail on ponds and an «organ» plays as water pours through its pipes.