In other words,
light waves hit a structure and are deflected, but continue to oscillate without their pattern of crests and troughs being distorted or interrupted in any way.
A beam - driven sailship should be concave — resembling an umbrella — to keep it aligned with the beam, so that when
light waves hit the sail, they naturally tend to center it on the beam.
A mechanistic physiologist analyses my sitting at my word processor in terms of
light waves hitting my retina from the keyboard and the screen which then set in train chemical and electrical processes in my nerves and brain.
Not exact matches
Frank Zumbo
hit the media
waves supporting the inquiry, claiming that the inquiry should be «welcomed for the purpose of shedding
light on this whole issue» and to «give Coles and Woolworths a chance to explain their behaviour» (see, eg, Patrick Stafford, «Milk inquiry to probe Coles, Woolworths over massive discounting» (Smart Company, 11 February 2011)-RRB-.
Radar satellites come equipped with an antenna that sends radio
waves to Earth; after
hitting the planet's surface, the signal is reflected and scattered back toward a detector that generates an image without the need for visible
light.
Using calculations and computer simulations, the team
hit on the right materials and pattern for a waveguide that would allow a forward - moving
light wave to progress symmetrically — so that its peaks and troughs remain parallel — while disrupting the backward
wave in such a way that its successive peaks and troughs deviate from the parallel.
But Pendry realized that when
light hits a small object, the impacting radiation triggers a subtle effect that manifests itself as a pattern of local
waves.
Dark matter
hitting black holes could be the source of some fast radio bursts — mysterious blasts of radio
waves that come from billions of
light years away, first detected 10 years ago.
As soon as the electromagnetic
waves of the
light field
hit the nanospheres, near - fields formed at the surface and began to pulsate.
But in 1997, five physicists
hit upon a possible strategy: Inflationary gravity
waves could distort the
light left over from the Big Bang in a discernible way.
Schematic of the experiment for ultra-fast current generation: When the
light wave (red)
hits the graphene (honeycomb grid), an electronic current is generated instantly.
The researchers then visualized the velocity of the two liquids using a technique called Laser Doppler Velocimetry, which detects changes in the frequency of
light waves when a laser beam
hits them.
The shell would gently guide incoming
light waves around the object within its center, rather than allowing them to
hit it.
Finish the style with a
light - hold, flexible hairspray, and you're now ready to
hit the beach with loose, textured beachy
waves!
Uluwatu of course holds the bulk of the photos and even though the wind was
light on shore there were still some nice
waves hitting the Main Peak and Temple sections.
Curated by Alison Dillulio and featuring works by 10 heavy -
hitting artists including Wilke, Lynda Benglis, Harmony Hammond, and more, the show reads the artists» material experimentation of the 1970s in
light of the concurrent developments in second -
wave feminism.
The heat
waves and drought that
hit the U.S. in 2011 and 2012 shined a harsh
light on the vulnerability of the U.S. power sector to extreme weather, and revealed water - related electricity risks across the country.
The molecule will first use the heat energy in expansion and on cooling will again condense and sink because heavier, and it will cool when its heat expanded volume flows to colder air which absorbs the heat, the internal kinetic energy of vibration, which if strong enough will pass that heat to another colder (which is why visible
light is not a thermal energy, it is not powerful enough to move a molecule of matter into vibration, it takes the bigger heat
wave, longwave infrared, aka thermal infrared called that because it is the wavelength of heat)-- that is how convective heating warms the fluid gas air in a room, by circulation, in the rise and fall of molecules as they expand and condense, not by heat energy propelling molecules to
hit other molecules..
Light waves can be reflected / scattered, absorbed, refracted, or transmitted to pass through matter unchanged and different materials will have different effects in these encounters; high energy light waves get scattered in our atmosphere from encounters with dust, water vapour, molecules, etc. as the white light hits the rough surface composed of these, so we have a blue sky for example, while the longer IR gets absorbed by water and earth, on a smooth surface such as glass or still water these high energy lights get reflected, angle of incidence equal to, and some pass through to get reflected or scattered at the next surface, think rai
Light waves can be reflected / scattered, absorbed, refracted, or transmitted to pass through matter unchanged and different materials will have different effects in these encounters; high energy
light waves get scattered in our atmosphere from encounters with dust, water vapour, molecules, etc. as the white light hits the rough surface composed of these, so we have a blue sky for example, while the longer IR gets absorbed by water and earth, on a smooth surface such as glass or still water these high energy lights get reflected, angle of incidence equal to, and some pass through to get reflected or scattered at the next surface, think rai
light waves get scattered in our atmosphere from encounters with dust, water vapour, molecules, etc. as the white
light hits the rough surface composed of these, so we have a blue sky for example, while the longer IR gets absorbed by water and earth, on a smooth surface such as glass or still water these high energy lights get reflected, angle of incidence equal to, and some pass through to get reflected or scattered at the next surface, think rai
light hits the rough surface composed of these, so we have a blue sky for example, while the longer IR gets absorbed by water and earth, on a smooth surface such as glass or still water these high energy
lights get reflected, angle of incidence equal to, and some pass through to get reflected or scattered at the next surface, think rainbow.