Sentences with phrase «like mechanical waves»

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BECs act in a quantum - mechanical wave - like fashion and interfere with each other.

To see a dramatic and mind - bending example of how light behaves like a wave, all you need is three pieces of mechanical pencil lead, a laser pointer and a dark room.

The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics By James Kakalios (Gotham) Professor and professed nerd Kakalios explains the quantum world through science fiction characters like Buck Rogers and Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen, who «gained independent control over his quantum mechanical wave function» to teleport and change his size.

«So these molecules would no longer run around like billiard balls, but move as quantum mechanical matter waves.

We have demonstrated that mechanical shock waves can cause the formation of diamond - like atoms further away from the point at which the impacting atoms hit the target, reports Caro, who performed the simulations on CSC (IT Center for science) supercomputers, modelling the deposition of tens of thousands of atoms.

Due to their quantum mechanical wave - like properties, when electrons are scattered off a crystal, they interfere with each other to create a diffraction pattern.

A team of physicists at the Clemson Nanomaterials Institute have developed a device, called a U-TENG, that is designed to take mechanical motion — like the waves in the ocean, the tap of a foot or the clap of a hand — and transform it into electricity.

It looks like the boys have been scoring some pumping waves down at the ever mechanical waves of Bingin.

θ = potential temperature, which is conserved for dry adiabatic processes and is a useful vertical coordinate for examining various fluid mechanical processes (like Rossby waves) when the atmospheric lapse rate is stable (for dry convection)(which is generally true on a large scale away from the boundary layer).