Sentences with phrase «waves cancel each other out»

In contrast, when the valley of one light wave overlaps with the peak of another light wave, the two waves cancel each other out (destructive interference).

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

Not exact matches

When the gravitational waters of spacetime are calm, the beams recombine at the junction and cancel each other out — the troughs of one beam's 1,064 - nanometer waves of laser light completely negate the crests of the second beam's waves.

The distance between the fibers affects how light waves interfere with each other to cancel out some wavelengths of light and not others, thus affecting what colors you perceive.

If the polarization of the two counter-propagating light waves is transverse, they will enhance each other at certain locations while cancelling out in other places.

By setting the phase differences just right, the researchers make the waves combine to reinforce one another in some places and cancel out one another in other places.

The silicon modulator splits laser beams into two channels, where the light waves can be manipulated to either cancel each other out (0) or travel side by side (1) when recombined.

Scattered light signals arriving over different paths will actually cancel each other out: The troughs of one wave will align with the crests of another.

«That trapped light builds up in intensity until it almost exactly cancels the incoming light,» in the same way that two colliding sound waves can zero each other out.

In other places the waves cancel themselves out, leading to the dark spaces you see between the spots.

Instead of aiming its mirrors straight at a planet and then combining the light waves, TPF will aim its mirrors at the host star and then let the light waves from the different mirrors cancel each other out by combining the peaks of one mirror's waves with the troughs of another's.

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.

Not to worry, Kakalios says: in the same way that sound waves can be canceled by running other waves out of synch with them, one could destroy intrinsic fields by canceling them out with others.

The ESA plans to build FEEP into the LISA Pathfinder, a spacecraft designed to detect gravitational waves while stationed at Lagrange point L1, where the gravitational fields of Earth and the sun cancel each other out.

If one wave is at its peak, the other at its lowest point, the two cancel one another out, and there is no current,» explains Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff from the Chair of Laser Physics.

The waves alternately cancel out and amplify each other so that the sea surface goes from wavy to flat to wavy.

They contributed to the work of canceling out the other myriad noises picked up by the twin LIGO detectors in Hanford, Wash., and Livingston, La., that weren't gravitational waves.

Without any spacetime ripples, the laser light waves from the two arms will perfectly cancel each other out, so nothing will reach a photodetector.

Solar activity will fall by 60 per cent as two waves of fluid «effectively cancel each other out», according to Prof Valentina Zharkova.

At each point, a series of concentric waves is generated, but most ot those cancel each other out.