Sentences with phrase «for electromagnetic radiation»

Was it not the introduction of quantization that led from the «ultraviolet catastrophe» that is quite unrelated to Maxwell's equations for electromagnetic radiation to the highly successful BB radiation formula of Planck.

(«Ether» refers to the chemical formerly used as an anesthetic, not to the purported pre-Einsteinian medium for electromagnetic radiation.)

Spread across the two floors of the Hong Kong gallery, the exhibition will present recent developments in Tillmans's portraiture and still lifes, beginning with an infrared self - portrait in which light is blocked out to allow for electromagnetic radiation to reveal thermal energy.

When two neutron stars collided on Aug. 17, a widespread search for electromagnetic radiation from the event led to observations of light from the afterglow of the explosion, finally connecting a gravitational - wave - producing event with conventional astronomy using light, according to an international team of astronomers.

Not exact matches

While they are superior in quality of sound and vision than analog monitors, they carry the possible risk of exposure to electromagnetic radiation to your baby and may not be something everyone would choose for baby safety or to babyproof their home.

Sasanelli stayed there for 11 years, working at first on designing application - specific integrated circuits (ASICs) that were resistant to interference from electromagnetic radiation.

These records have raised hopes that, for the first time, scientists may have glimpsed electromagnetic radiation — light — produced in tandem with gravitational waves.

IT IS like a valve for light — the first material that transmits electromagnetic radiation in one direction only.

«The evidence that these new gravitational waves are from merging neutron stars has been captured, for the first time, by observatories on Earth and in orbit that detect electromagnetic radiation, including visible light and other wavelengths,» said Chad Hanna, assistant professor of physics and of astronomy & astrophysics and Freed Early Career Professor at Penn State.

«Sunlight is a mixture of electromagnetic radiation made up of near - UV rays, visible light, and infrared energy, or heat,» said Yueh - Lin (Lynn) Loo, director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and the Theodora D.»78 and William H. Walton III»74 Professor in Engineering.

It wasn't for lack of interest: since their discovery in the late 1960s, these brief flashes of high - energy electromagnetic radiation have been one of the enduring mysteries of astrophysics.

For cloaking to work, the metal shapes stamped on the metamaterial must be smaller than the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation that is aimed at them.

Shielding makes it possible to insulate electrical conductors so they can be handled safely, even if they carry 220 lethal volts, and for the same reason, radios, which feed on electromagnetic radiation, fade in highway tunnels.

Controversy has arisen again about whether holding a cell phone next to the head for too many minutes a day threatens the brain with electromagnetic radiation.

So thirsty are theorists for new insights into black holes and relativistic processes that, with each LIGO detection, observational astronomers have leapt into action to target those enormous patches of sky, hoping to see some afterglow or other emission of electromagnetic radiation — even though by definition the resulting larger black hole should emit no light.

All the characteristics mentioned before turn this device into an instrument of electromagnetic fields measurements for any person who wish to control the radiation levels.

The electromagnetic radiation levels received by a person who wears the device are stored to later assess his exposure for extended periods of time.

The CALLISTO (Compound Astronomical Low - cost Low - frequency Instrument for Spectroscopy in Transportable Observatory) spectrometers, designed and built by electronics engineer Christian Monstein of the Institute for Astronomy of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), record the intensity of electromagnetic radiation at radio frequencies, between 45 and 870 megahertz.

The term usually refers to optical telescopes, but there are telescopes for most of the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation and for other signal types.

For the kilogram, they suggested using the Planck constant, which relates the energy of electromagnetic radiation to its frequency.

Scan from the region of visible light towards the longer wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum and you'll find, sandwiched between microwaves and the infrared, a type of radiation that we have previously had little time for: terahertz rays, or T - rays.

The finding that a single layer of atoms modifies properties of light and other electromagnetic radiation has implications for controlling light at subwavelength scales in photonic devices such as LEDs and photovoltaic cells.

Most types of electromagnetic radiation, except for visible light and radio waves, are absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere.

Abstract: Surface plasmon resonances provide a pathway to efficiently capture electromagnetic radiation in sub-wavelength structures for energy conversion and photodetection at the nano scale.

And, it is hypothesized that gravitational waves are responsible for transporting energy in the form of gravitational radiation — much like electromagnetic waves carry electromagnetic radiation.

Although she is only a high school student, she is searching for the signal of a pulsar — a rapidly rotating neutron star that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation like a lighthouse.

(The color of light is typically measured in frequencies — or the number of wavelengths per second for this type of electromagnetic radiation.)

In 1969, Dr. Carruthers received a patent for an instrument designed to detect short wavelength electromagnetic radiation.

Therefore, although the ALMA reflectors look like giant satellite receptors, for a photon with submillimetric wavelength (a particle carrying electromagnetic radiation), they are almost perfect and very precise reflective surfaces.

The PBCr developed will be used for the construction of novel light sources of high - energy monochromatic electromagnetic radiation by means of a Crystalline Undulator (CU).

The short - lived outbursts of the most energetic electromagnetic radiation remained one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics for nearly three decades thereafter.

SESAME, which stands for Synchrotron - light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, is a light - source; a particle accelerator - based facility that uses electromagnetic radiation emitted by circulating electron beams to study a range of properties of matter.

Asleep on these antennas, our bodies are exposed to the amplified electromagnetic radiation for a third of our life spans.

Three other works make historical time visible: two cast bronze and aluminum sculptures inspired by the nameplates of Britain's intercity trains, and the sculpture Johns Radiometer, which is modeled on a nineteenth - century device for measuring electromagnetic radiation.

I accept the radiation physics indicating CO2 acts as a filter for certain electromagnetic frequencies, and also the estimate of 1 degree C of warming per doubling of CO2 in the absence of feedback.

There has to be some sort of inhomogeneity, such as free surface, cloud droplet, dust particle or abrupt change of refractive index, for the energy in the intercepted electromagnetic radiation to reappear in the form of translational motion (i.e. heat) rather than being confined to vibrational and rotation modes.

But of course, when it's pointed out that not all absorption of electromagnetic radiation creates heat, for example in photosynthesis when it converts to chemical energy and not heat energy and in the atmosphere where absorption of visible light by the electrons of the molecules of nitrogen and oxygen which spit out the same non-thermal energy that went in, this is ignored.

The AGWSF meme for the plebs is that «all electromagnetic radiation is the same» and «all create heat on being absorbed», and it also provides «rebuttal memes» for their apologetics teams, «haven't you heard of conservation of energy?»

A liquid - expansion or platinum - resistance thermometer placed in the atmosphere at elevation 2m (for example) above ocean or land surface measures: — molecular kinetic energy (molecular translational energy, heat) plus — LWR energy plus — molecular vibrational energy of the GHGs (primarily H2O in the gaseous form) because LWR energy and molecular vibrational energy of the GHGs are transmuted to molecular kinetic energy (molecular translational energy, heat) upon impacting upon the molecules of the solid and I understand that there is no transverse electromagnetic radiation inside a solid.

I deny that the luminiferous ether is necessary for the transmission of electromagnetic radiation.

(Scienceofdoom is an excellent site for lay people to get an understanding of CO2's heat absorption properties, or more accurately electromagnetic radiation absorption) I've summarized things on my blog under a post called «The path length approximation».

Their reasons for objecting to the technology range from health concerns about the radiation and electromagnetic signals emitted from the devices, which they fear could cause cancer, migraines or other illnesses, to security and privacy fears.

When the energy enters and leaves the terrestrial system, it must be in the form of electromagnetic radiation, since space is a vacuum and does not provide a medium for other types of energy transfer (Pierrehumbert 2011).

This paper examines what is currently known about the impact of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation, reviews the implications it can have for Ontario schools, including OECTA members, and makes recommendations to the Ontario English Catholic Teachers» Association on the issue.