Sentences with phrase «waves come into contact with it»

When a finger is placed on the screen, the sound waves come into contact with it.

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.

Not exact matches

She accomplished this by taking advantage of a simple fact — waves travel differently when they come into contact with different materials such as air, water or biological tissue.

They may explain an ancient observation by the Roman scientist Pliny the Elder, who opined that the concrete, «as soon as it comes into contact with the waves of the sea and is submerged, becomes a single stone mass, impregnable to the waves and every day stronger.»

As a swell approaches the coastline and comes into contact with the sea floor the waves will start... Continue reading Understanding the wave

However the tidal currents coming into contact with the relief of the ocean bottom (even if this is very deep) creates waves which are propagated at the interface between two layers of different densities.