Sentences with phrase «wave out of phase»

That's because some of the returning light scattered from points on the surface has farther to go and throws the collective wave out of phase.

Standing air pressure waves at the mouth of each runner were essentially in phase, while prior manifolds had waves out of phase at low speed, resulting in rumbling noises.

Not exact matches

Traders on the floor of a stock exchange, waving slips of paper in the air and yelling like lunatics, were already being phased out in the 1980s, as firms adopted more efficient electronic trading platforms.

Since they don't align with this new wave of thinking, meat and dairy have seen a drop - off in consumption, and even foods once regarded as superfoods, like eggs, have been phasing out.

The Large Binocular Telescope, or LBT, has the unique capability to perform this interferometry, as it is designed so that its twin telescopes can each detect light waves that are perfectly out of phase with each other.

Because the light leaking out of the waveguide is all in synch, the waveguide might be bent to form an antenna that emits light wave with sculpted phase fronts, he says.

When waves come into contact with one another, they exhibit interference: waves that are all in phase (rarefying or compressing the same particles at the same time) add together to become stronger, and waves that are out of phase with one another (for example, one wave attempts to rarefy particles in a medium while another attempts to compress those same particles) cancel out.

Collectively, the effect would be to throw the waves of light from the galaxy out of phase; waves that started out even and lined up would be out of step with one another when they reached Earth.

Because of this mixed effect, a wave will fall out of phase with its neighbors much more slowly than Lieu's team figured.

This puts it slightly out of phase (its wave peaks out of step) with the sound received at the closer ear.

The bass notes that passed through the dividing wall were picked up and fed to an amplifier, which adjusted their amplitude and phase so that the sound waves coming out of the loudspeakers neutralised the sound of the bass notes from next door.

The dentate gyrus also generates theta waves, which are difficult to separate from the CA1 waves because they are considerably smaller in amplitude, but there is some evidence that dentate gyrus theta is usually about 90 degrees out of phase from CA1 theta.

If you are working out on a regular basis you will have a better time entering a sleep of deeper quality and will spend more time in that deep sleep phase (also known as slow - wave sleep or SWS).

A ceiling - mounted microphone detects low - frequency noise and the system then generates out - of - phase frequencies — the sound waves cancel each other out.

For example, he pointed out how certain phases of a primary trend showed very limited counter-waves and rarely pulled back until the entire wave set was completed.

Wave The appearance of the wave captivated Kidner and wave theory became his obsession as he realised that a wave pattern produces many more possibilities than straight lines because waves can be put in or out of phase.

Another words, the ocean can indeed be very calm if the next incoming wave arrives out of phase (half a cycle or so), even if the preceding wave was two feet in amplititude due to two waves arriving in synch (on time).

What I am saying is that it makes no sense at all to hand - wave at the effects of uncontrolled volcanic eruptions as «absolute proof» that geoengineering schemes «can work», while promoting a gradual 50 - year phaseout of GHG emissions (which is too slow to have any hope of preventing catastrophic outcomes) as «logical» (whatever that means) and ignoring the multiple studies that show we can easily phase out emissions in a fraction of that time with the proven technologies that are already at hand.

Here's something interesting... using either HADCRUT4 or NASA / GISS data, redraw an 1880 - 2013 global temperature graph MINUS the record warm 1998 signal (and if you want also take out the following 1999 cold phase as well since it is all part of one ENSO wave).

Judith — you say «The stadium wave hypothesizes that the Arctic regional sea ice max / min are out of phase with the hemispheric warming / cooling periods, with the minima lagging the hemispheric warming period and occurring in the early half of the hemispheric cooling period.».

The stadium wave hypothesizes that the Arctic regional sea ice max / min are out of phase with the hemispheric warming / cooling periods, with the minima lagging the hemispheric warming period and occurring in the early half of the hemispheric cooling period.

The phase difference plot between foF2 and PI (left plot) indicates the following regularities: (i) high - latitude foF2 9 - d oscillations are out of phase with those in PI; (ii) there is a clear seasonal dependence of the negative high - latitude foF2 9 - d wave response and this can be traced out by the zero phase difference line; it approaches high latitudes (± 60 °) in winter and moves toward the equator (near ± 30 °) in summer, and (iii) middle - and low - latitude foF2 9 - d waves usually lag behind that in PI; the mean time delay is ~ 1.5 — 2 days (~ 60 — 90 °).

The headphones then produce their own out - of - phase sound waves that destroys outside noise.