Sentences with phrase «predicted wave shapes»

These simulations are essential to LIGO; by comparing the shapes of the waves that LIGO observes with the simulations» predicted wave shapes, LIGO scientists can figure out what produces the observed waves.

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Ms Rudd predicted that the wave of sleaze allegations sweeping Westminster would lead to a positive «clear - out» which would leave Parliament and the Government in better shape.

The simulation, set to last one hour, may help theorists predict the shapes and durations of waves, which would shrink or stretch space as they pass.

That's because, even though quantum mechanics deals in probabilities — such as the likelihood of an electron being in one location or another — the quantum waves that give those probabilities must still evolve predictably, so that if you know a wave's shape at one moment you can predict it exactly at any future time.

«By picking up the gravitational waves associated with these events, we will be able to access precious information that was previously hidden, such as whether the collision of a star and a black hole has ignited the burst and roughly how massive these objects were before the impact,» explained Dr Ohme, who has focused his research on predicting the exact shape of the gravitational wave signals scientists are expecting to see.

The researchers came up with a simple ratio to predict a delta's shape, based on a river's sediment flux, or the flow rate of sediment through a river, and the strength of ocean waves, determined by a wave's height, frequency, and angle of approach.

Now researchers from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have devised a simple way to predict a river delta's shape, given two competing factors: its river's force in depositing sediment into the ocean, and ocean waves» strength in pushing that sediment back along the coast.