Sentences with phrase «surface at a high angle»

Because of their near - spherical shape, the droplets meet the surface at a high angle — above 150 ° if the water is sitting on a superhydrophobic surface.

Not exact matches

To elaborate, by looking at the properties of those dots on the surface and how curved lines and angles behave as the balloon expands, we can distinguish its surface from that of a flat piece of paper, without needing to think about any higher dimensions.

Open - ocean fish species exhibited camouflage that was superior to that of both nearshore fish and mirrorlike surfaces, with significantly higher crypsis at angles associated with predator detection and pursuit.

For about 30 minutes before bed, lay on a flat surface (bed or floor) and put your feet up on another surface a couple feet higher at a 90 degree angle.

water surfaces vary from very low about 5 % (0.05) at high sun elevation to at least 70 % (0.70) at low sun angles.

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 rainbow.