Sentences with phrase «direction electromagnetic waves»
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Light is an electromagnetic wave, and its electric field is free to oscillate in any direction.
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Light from the stellar remnant, a neutron star located about 400 light - years away, is polarized, meaning that its electromagnetic waves are oriented preferentially in a particular direction like light that reflects off the surface of water (SN: 7/8/06, p. 24).
``... this pulls the carbon in one direction and the oxygens in another, so an electromagnetic wave that vibrates at the correct frequency can excite the molecule into a vibrational motion in which the carbon atom moves in the opposite direction to the two oxygen atoms.