Sentences with phrase «wave oscillates»

Overlooking this is like failing to notice that a sine wave oscillates.

During the course of the laser pulse, the electric field of the light wave oscillates about a dozen times.

A light wave oscillates perpendicular to its propagation direction — that is what students learn in school.

Pulsar timing detectors are best for sensing waves in which years pass between peaks; ground - based interferometers perk up when hit by waves oscillating hundreds of times per second.

When activated, sensors inside would scan the thousands of brain waves oscillating in a soldier's head; a microprocessor would apply pattern recognition software to decode those waves and translate them into specific sentences or words, and a radio would transmit the message.

In 2013, he proved numerically that this configuration of waves should resonate, or exchange energy, meaning that as two of the three waves oscillate, they should drive the third wave to oscillate in response.

Concealment depends on light waves oscillating in the same direction, an effect that spoils most practical applications.

The laser light waves oscillate at 450 nanometers and put out 1200 lumens, good for 500 meters — or well over a quarter - mile — of night vision.

It's rigged up in a do - it - yourself manner so sound waves oscillate from the highest to lowest frequencies perceptible to the human ear through a circle of the upturned speakers, each piled up with crystals that reverberate at various frequencies.

Not exact matches

One oscillating wave... the moving air submerged him in its tide....

Sounds range from ocean waves and rain storms to cats purring and oscillating fans to soft classical music.

Waves from binary supermassive black holes oscillate slowly compared with supernovas, which generate high - frequency wWaves from binary supermassive black holes oscillate slowly compared with supernovas, which generate high - frequency waveswaves.

This scattering is imprinted in the CMB's polarization (the direction in which waves of light oscillate as they travel).

Using oscillating brain waves, rather than observing seizures as they happen, Ince locates the seizure onset zone in one hour.

However, if the two light waves also oscillate along the direction of propagation, their oscillation states will inevitably differ.

Light waves can oscillate in a fixed direction or twist like a corkscrew.

Light is an electromagnetic wave, and its electric field is free to oscillate in any direction.

The results from the quantum - optics labs at the TU Vienna could give a new twist to research concerned with longitudinally oscillating light waves in very different scientific fields: Even a focused laser beam in free space has a longitudinal component.

Scientists measuring brain activity have found that in many regions, such as the sensory or motor cortex, activity sometimes oscillates at different frequencies, forming wave - like patterns.

In the tunneling picture the laser field is considered as an electromagnetic wave, where only the oscillating electric field is retained.

In other words, light waves hit a structure and are deflected, but continue to oscillate without their pattern of crests and troughs being distorted or interrupted in any way.

Instead, they rebounded and then oscillated, sending sound waves reverberating through space.

Which colour is seen at each pixel depends on how the light coming through the pinhole is polarised — that is, whether the waves of light oscillate vertically, horizontally, or some angle in between — and so whether it lines up with the long or short arm.

«An important part of the global air motion in the mid-latitudes of the Earth normally takes the form of waves wandering around the planet, oscillating between the tropical and the Arctic regions.

The core oscillates 300 times per second, sending out sound waves a little higher than middle C on a piano, which zoom through the star at 70 million miles per hour.

As the pulses approached Earth, the ultralow frequency waves made the planet's magnetic field lines oscillate and accelerated electrons traveling along the field lines to extraordinarily high speeds.

«Light is an oscillating field like a wave, and a wave moves in a certain direction,» Lupton says.

As soon as the atoms «feel» the electromagnetic wave of the light, their electrons start to oscillate.

The diameters of the thinnest cables, however, are in the micrometer range, as the light waves — with a wavelength of around one micrometer — must be able to oscillate unhindered.

These electrons oscillate at the same frequency as the incident light, which gives rise to the reflected wave.

The individual waves were still oscillating quickly but they were oscillating at the same frequency in opposite directions, meaning at certain points they canceled each other out and other points they added together, creating an all light or all dark pattern.

«The oscillating electrical field in the incoming light wave produces a force on the charges inside the mirror.

(The frequencies of such waves, which oscillate tens of billions of times faster than the petahertz laser in an aluminum clock, are simply too high to monitor and count.)

Any massive particle must be described by a quantum wave that oscillates up and down even if the particle just sits there.

This triggered brain cells to oscillate together, creating gamma waves — a type of brain activity that is often weaker in people with Alzheimer's.

At the point where they interact, electrons oscillate, forming a wave - like pulse that travels across the surface.

As the plane wave travels along, the pattern oscillates rapidly, causing it to emit ultraviolet radiation that the researchers observe.

Acoustic energy from earthquakes can travel though the Earth as different types of waves, including shear waves, which oscillate perpendicular to the direction of propagation, and compressional waves, which oscillate in the same direction as they propagate.

Because of the high breakaway torque and large wheels, the air suspension (1,950 euros) responds harshly to minor bumps, oscillating in comfort mode over long waves.

In the series, Compositions (Cards), Donovan creates patterns that reference textiles, landscape and oscillating waves by working within the conventional constraints of square and rectangular frames.

Beginning with breaking news from The New York Times, the artists add a little programming mumbo jumbo to create oscillating sound waves for ambient noise, with text - converted - to - images displaying on the monitors, all while interacting with the movement of viewers in the space.

Asawa's life encompasses many stories with timely echoes: of a woman artist who came to prominence before the first wave of postwar feminism, of a Japanese - American who went from finishing high school at an internment camp to Black Mountain College, one of the most radical of all American experiments in arts education; of an artist whose oscillating career has typified the vagaries of the artist's life in America.

Light waves involve oscillating electric fields that cause the C and O to move relative to each other.

There is an interesting process in the equatorial stratosphere wherein upward transport of momentum and energy by waves is absorbed depending on the wind structure in such a way as to cause the wind to oscillate from easterly to westerly on a timescale that has no direct dependence on the timescales of any forcing — a bit like an internal clock (QBO).

Normally we would see the Bermuda High pressure wave interacting with this SW US pressure wave, by oscillating East and West.

The energy requirements for BNO (R) are shown to be quite large — an oscillating radative forcing of 1.15 Wm ^ -2 peak - to - peak if of square - wave form, 1.8 Wm ^ -2 if of sine - wave form.

Rather than «stadium wave» I would think that a mobile (as in kinetic art) would be a better analogy for a number of oscillators that oscillate individually and interact in such a way as to create a chaotic action.

Japan pioneered wave energy in the 1970 / 80s, with a floating «Mighty Whale» Oscillating Water Column system and some harbour wall / breakwater OWCs, but did not follow it up, in part due to its economic crisis.

52 Wave Power - Generators Physics for the IB Diploma 5th Edition (Tsokos) 2008 Physics for the IB Diploma 5th Edition (Tsokos) 2008 Wave Power - Generators Oscillating Water Column (OWC) Captures the energy of the wave without being exposed to the corrosive environment of the waves.

«For the quasi-biennial oscillation, the conventional thinking has it that waves travelling upwards from tropical convection create the oscillating winds,» said Osprey.