Sentences with phrase «waves moving through»

# 2 Electromagnetic radiation is generated by electromagnetic waves moving through space or solid substance in the form of radio waves, infrared radiation, visible light, ultraviolet radiation, X rays, and gamma rays.

During a four - year period, the researchers used sensors to measure relative changes in the velocity of seismic waves moving through the volcano over time.

When an earthquake hits a town, the destruction is caused by seismic waves moving through the Earth.

In the accompanying video, we use the longer version of the equation that doesn't depend on the waves moving through a vacuum.

Earthquake shaking is caused by a mixture of seismic waves moving through the ground at different frequencies.

Inspired by a 2012 paper that proposed a correlation between such hotspots and the velocity of seismic waves moving through Earth's interior, UC Santa Barbara geochemist Matthew Jackson teamed with the authors of the original paper — Thorsten Becker of the University of Texas at Austin and Jasper Konter of the University of Hawaii — to show that only the hottest hotspots with the slowest wave velocity draw from the primitive reservoir formed early in the planet's history.

When a gravitational wave moves through the detector, though, it should stretch one arm of LIGO while shortening the other, changing the path of the beams and causing the rejoined waves to produce a detectable pattern of light.

The severity of earthquake shaking is fundamentally controlled by three factors: earthquake magnitude, the attenuation of energy as waves move through the crust and the modification of shaking due to the local geological structure.

How It Works: Seismic waves propagate through the Earth much as sound waves move through air, so the concept is similar to the sound cloak.

A six - year study of seismic activity along the San Andreas Fault found that the 2004 Parkfield earthquake caused breakage and microcracking in shallow rock layers that changed the speed at which seismic waves moved through the area, making it more vulnerable to tremors for more than three years afterward.

Imagine an electromagnetic wave moving through a flat surface made of thousands of tiny electrical cells.

But Anderson realized that when waves move through highly complex or disordered spaces, like a room with very irregular walls, the waves can trap themselves in place.

In a clever tabletop experiment, the researchers sent a pulse of light through a single optical fiber doped with erbium, a metal that alters the speed at which light waves move through the fiber.

The creators of quantum mechanics developed a powerful mathematical tool — the wave function — to predict how a fluctuating particle / wave moves through space and time.

Because of the way light waves move through hyperbolic metamaterials, they can be used as superlenses to view objects too small to be seen with other microscopy methods.

In a study led by Xiang Zhang, a faculty scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, the research team used a unique optical metamaterial with a refractive index of zero to generate «phase mismatch - free nonlinear light,» meaning the generated light waves move through the material gaining strength in all directions.

Not exact matches

McConnell stayed on the attack, sending out word that the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the conference's campaign arm, was effectively blacklisting an outside consulting firm that had done work for the SCF — a move designed to send a shock wave of fear through the party's vendor class.

Dan Clifton, head of policy research at Strategas, said the Tillerson move will no doubt be followed by other shake - ups but that should not send longer - term shock waves through the market.

Some TV providers and broadcasters will be better off than others as this wave of disruption moves through the industry.

The ship moves faster and faster, pulling me through salty waves and I find it hard to breathe in the rushing pull.

There was something blowing in the north Dublin air that they would later describe in the song «Lucifer's Hands»: «The spirit's moving through a seaside town / I'm born again to the latest sound / New wave airwaves swirling around my heart.»

I don't know how to raise them in the faith in any other way than this: God is good, God is Love, God is for you, never against you, and when you want to dance, darling, wave your flag and spin, let the wind of the Spirit move through you.

We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.

In the Spanish and Portuguese possessions, after the first wave of conquest, it was through benevolent Christian missions that the frontier of white settlement moved forward.

Please let this wave of faith move through out this great nation.

Having caused some controversy in the manner of his move from Barca to PSG, it seems Neymar is ready to once again send shock - waves through world football by eventually moving to their bitter rivals Real Madrid.

A move to Under Armour would have sent a titanic wave through this emerging subculture.

I had to completely focus on moving and moaning through each wave.

It wasn't until the early 20th century, though, that researchers understood seismic waves, which we now categorize as either body (moving through the planet's interior) or surface.

Much the way ships form bow waves as they move through water, CMEs set off interplanetary shocks when they erupt from the Sun at extreme speeds, propelling a wave of high - energy particles.

It's very similar to the bow wave you see off the front of a ship as it moves through water... but on a somewhat larger scale.

The speed with which the wave moves suggests that it travels through gap junctions and is made up either of calcium ions or some other small signaling molecule.

Secondary waves move only through solids; shear forces don't exist in liquids (since liquids can't be torn apart).

When we hold an item in working memory, these oscillations move through brain circuits in waves that rise and fall scores of times.

The waves travel at differing speeds depending on the materials they flow through, which provides clues about the topography of the interior: Faster - moving waves, for instance, generally indicate denser rock.

AGWs are naturally occurring sounds waves that move through the deep ocean at the speed of sound and can travel thousands of metres below the surface.

This new genetic evidence might indicate that perhaps an early wave of humans moved through Asia, mixed with Denisovans and then relocated to the islands — to be replaced in Asia by later waves of human migrants from Africa.

Seismic waves move faster through flowing rock because the pressure deforms the crystals of olivine, a mineral common in the mantle, and stretches them in the same direction.

«The waves travelling through the dune move individual grains of sand, which exert a force on the geophone that we use for measurements,» Vriend added.

If the medium through which an electromagnetic wave is propagating is moving as fast as the wave itself, the wave is effectively trapped and can not escape the medium.

The researchers modeled the internal waves that move through the Luzon Strait between southern Taiwan and the Philippine island of Luzon.

In another application, the sensor was used to study how cells respond to the introduction of extracellular hydrogen peroxide, which produces a wave of oxidation as it moves through the cellular structures.

Using X-ray technology to watch each creature as it moved through a bed of sand, researchers studied the waves propagating down the bodies of both the snakes and sandfish lizards.

Gravitational waves are created by massive objects moving through space - time.

Greaves adds: «This seems to be like a bow - wave — Geminga is moving incredibly fast through our Galaxy, much faster than the speed of sound in interstellar gas.

Researchers generally assumed that newcomers and native hunter - gatherers interbred at first, perhaps as a single wave of farmers moved through Europe to the Atlantic coast, Lipson says.

The company's CEO, John Gilleland, originally likened his reactor to a smoldering cigarette or cigar, with a slow - moving fission phase moving wave - like through the fuel core, generating neutrons to maintain a gradually advancing chain reaction while it consumes most of the fuel.

When these laser pulses hit a blood vessel, for example, they cause a small increase in pressure that moves through the body like a sound wave and can be measured on the skin.

He studied the phenomenon in the context of electrons moving through impure materials (electrons behave as both particles and waves), but under certain circumstances it can happen with other types of waves as well.

Mosquitos, flies and spiders all have fine hairs on their bodies that move with the sounds waves traveling through the air.