Sentences with phrase «emissions of radiation»

But the first order effect is the absorption and emission of radiation by water vapor, i.e., the greenhouse effect.

But that does not mean that emission of radiation at that wavelength = absorption of radiation at that wavelength.

The principles of absorption and emission of radiation by various atmospheric trace gases like water vapor and CO2 rely on the theory of quantum mechanics.

The maser (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation), the older microwave frequency sibling of the laser, was invented in 1954.

The search for galactic emissions of radiation which could signal the presence of advanced alien civilizations has failed to find any, researchers say.

Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation to the rescue.

Instead atmospheric physics uses the fundamental equations (the radiative transfer equations) which determine absorption and emission of radiation by water vapor, CO2, methane, and other trace gases.

The important point to note for those a little bewildered by all the numbers — we have used the first law of thermodynamics, the equation for emission of radiation and the equation for conducted heat and as a result we have an equation with only one unknown — the temperature.

Late in 1916, despite the exhaustion of just having completed his grand papers on general relativity, Einstein told his close friend Michele Besso that «a splendid light has dawned on me about the absorption and emission of radiation.»

Typically, lasers require a much larger cavity that allows light to bounce back and forth between mirrors for it to become amplified into a laser (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation).

In just four decades, the laser has become so commonplace that few people even realize that laser, now used as a noun, had its beginning as an acronym for «light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.»

In fewer than six years from the publication of the Schawlow - Townes paper, the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics was shared by Townes and by Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov of the Lebedev Institute in Moscow for their early work in masers («microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation») and the subsequent development of the optical maser, or laser.

A laser — the name stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation — exploits the peculiar quantum interactions between atoms and light.

Townes» appointment as director of research for the U.S. government's Institute of Defense Analysis in 1959 slowed his efforts to build an optical device, opening the door for Theodore Maiman to demonstrate the first laser — light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation — in 1960.

He and his students built such a device using ammonia gas in 1954 and dubbed it a maser, for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.

The complex simulation included hydrodynamics, chemical reactions, the absorption and emission of radiation, and star formation.

They release radio energy in a nearly flat spectrum because of the emission of radiation by charged particles moving spirally at nearly the speed of light in a magnetic field enmeshed in the gaseous remnant.

Another type of device, the maser (acronym for «microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation») has proved useful in such areas as radio astronomy, microwave radiometry, and long - distance communications.

In doing so, the researchers hope to create a model that better predicts the emission of radiation from black hole accretion at the galactic center, bringing the predictions in line with astrophysical observations made using NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory.

They calculate the transfer of energy between each layer in the atmosphere as a result of absorption and emission of radiation.

Light therapy or LASER (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) is used for pain management, stimulating tissue healing and controlling inflammation.

A laser therapy treatment seemed like magic just a few years ago, but now we know light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, or «laser» therapy has many bedside uses.

Laser stands for «light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.»

You will turn into a real engineer, able to cope with any critical situation - the emission of radiation, fire, earthquake.

Because radiation carries energy, the absorption of radiation tends to cause warming while the emission of radiation tends to cause cooling.

The important issues is the emission of radiation to space — and at what height this takes place from — that causes the surface temperature to change.

So as Nick Stokes points out (in a comment below), we can draw a line around the whole climate system, including the emission of radiation by the sun (see example 4 just below).

If the colder atmosphere can not transfer energy to a warmer surface, and the second law of thermodynamics is the reason, the actual event that is forbidden is the emission of radiation by the colder atmosphere.

«The way the greenhouse effect actually works is through the capture and emission of radiation.

4) The way the greenhouse effect actually works is through the capture and emission of radiation.

Sg is the emission of radiation by the ground.