Sentences with phrase «ripples in a small pond»

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In the case of electrons on helium, the system is pure and homogenous, but the surface of liquid helium is nonetheless disturbed by capillary waves — ripples associated with the surface tension and similar to small, circular ripples in a pond when a pebble is tossed into the wateIn the case of electrons on helium, the system is pure and homogenous, but the surface of liquid helium is nonetheless disturbed by capillary waves — ripples associated with the surface tension and similar to small, circular ripples in a pond when a pebble is tossed into the watein a pond when a pebble is tossed into the water.

This month's special issue of Physics World is devoted to animal physics, and includes science writer Stephen Ornes» explanation of how pond skaters effortlessly skip across water, leaving nothing but a small ripple in their wake.

In fact, the ring - like shape is the result of the gravitational disruption caused by a small intruder galaxy passing through a large one, compressing the interstellar gas and dust, and causing a wave of star formation wave to move out from the impact point like a ripple across the surface of a pond.

I am not some pebble in the pond, making small ripples no one notices.

For example, in View Delusion 1 (2016) Geng Xue surrounds a human head with mountains and small ponds, their ripples frozen as if in a photograph.