Sentences with phrase «types of surface waves»

Many of the theories and concepts about these waves are similar to those that are applicable to other types of surface waves, in particular, tsunamis, and waves generated by the fall of a meteorite.

Not exact matches

In addition to the waves that distort Earth's surface and cause so much destruction, earthquakes spawn two other types of seismic energy that ricochet through the body of the entire planet.

There are two major types of seismic waves: surface waves and body waves.

«These excitations manifest themselves in different ways in different systems, but the type of responses we observed for pure metallic materials are primarily standing surface acoustic waves.»

The scope of these results goes well beyond the field of photonics, since this type of background noise is generally considered to be one of the possible mechanisms behind the destructive rogue waves that suddenly appear on the surface of oceans, and is also believed to be present in other systems such as plasma dynamics in the early Universe.

(P6.2 lesson) 4.6.2.1 - Types of electromagnetic waves (P6.6 lesson) 4.6.2.2 - Properties of electromagnetic waves 1 (P6.7 a lesson) 4.6.2.3 - Properties of electromagnetic waves 2 (P6.7 a lesson) Required practical (P6.7 b lesson)- investigate how the amount of infrared radiation absorbed or radiated by a surface depends on the nature of that surface.

For another important type of mixing, the breaking of the internal waves on the surfaces between layers of different densities, Gregg et al. (2003).

As this radiation heats the earth's surface, it escapes the earth in the form of long - wave radiation; a type of radiation that is much more difficult to pass through the atmosphere.