• gravitational equivalent of electromagnetic waves. In 1916, Albert Einstein demonstrated that gravitational waves result from his general theory of relativity...
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    light and radio waves, gravitational waves, and transverse sound waves (shear waves) in solids. An electromagnetic wave such as light consists of a coupled...
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    Radio waves with frequencies above about 1 GHz and wavelengths shorter than 30 centimeters are called microwaves. Like all electromagnetic waves, radio...
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    rock can be visible in the trough of passing waves. Other shoal spots besides the Bishop Rock also spawn giant waves. These shoals range in depth from 30...
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    gravitational waves. In gravitational-wave astronomy, observations of gravitational waves are used to infer data about the sources of gravitational waves. Sources...
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    of electromagnetic waves, which are synchronized oscillations of electric and magnetic fields. In a vacuum, electromagnetic waves travel at the speed...
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  • Doppler effect (category Wave mechanics)
    waves that propagate in a medium, such as sound waves, the velocity of the observer and of the source are relative to the medium in which the waves are...
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  • Passing (1929) is a novel by American author Nella Larsen. Set primarily in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the 1920s, the story centers on...
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    Tsunami (redirect from Tsunami waves)
    Tsunami waves do not resemble normal undersea currents or sea waves because their wavelength is far longer. Rather than appearing as a breaking wave, a tsunami...
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  • device is a long rubber tube which is tethered underwater. Passing waves will instigate a wave inside the tube, which will then propagates down its walls...
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    water. A machine that exploits wave power is a wave energy converter (WEC). Waves are generated primarily by wind passing over the sea's surface and also...
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    Wavelength (redirect from Wave length)
    that a wave travels through. Examples of waves are sound waves, light, water waves and periodic electrical signals in a conductor. A sound wave is a variation...
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    context of wave superposition by Thomas Young in 1801. The principle of superposition of waves states that when two or more propagating waves of the same...
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    Wello Penguin (category Wave energy converters)
    generator to harvest energy from the movement of the hull in passing waves. An assessment of wave energy technologies in 2020 rated it at a technology readiness...
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    as mechanical waves (e.g. water waves, sound waves and seismic waves) or electromagnetic waves (including light waves). It arises in fields like acoustics...
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    gravitational waves is complicated by the extraordinarily small effect the waves produce on a detector. The amplitude of a spherical wave falls off as...
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    Double-slit experiment (category Wave mechanics)
    and the light passing through the slits is observed on a screen behind the plate. The wave nature of light causes the light waves passing through the two...
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    Light (redirect from Light waves)
    entering a denser medium. The wave theory predicted that light waves could interfere with each other like sound waves (as noted around 1800 by Thomas...
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    Western Australia, Carnegie Wave Energy are refining a technology called CETO, which uses energy captured from passing waves to generate high-pressure sea...
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  • three-dimensional distributions of sound waves called sound fields to be stored and reconstructed. To do this, sound passing through a surface is recorded as...
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    Diffraction from slits (category Wave mechanics)
    Diffraction processes affecting waves are amenable to quantitative description and analysis. Such treatments are applied to a wave passing through one or more slits...
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    as transverse waves. Hertz had positioned the oscillator about 12 meters from a zinc reflecting plate to produce standing waves. Each wave was about 4 meters...
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  • in this band is called millimeter waves, sometimes abbreviated MMW or mmWave. Millimeter-length electromagnetic waves were first investigated by Jagadish...
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    the two waves. In constructive interference, the two waves have the same phase and, as a result, interfere in a way that the resulting wave amplitude...
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    Waveplate (redirect from Wave Plate)
    alters the polarization state of a light wave travelling through it. Two common types of waveplates are the half-wave plate, which rotates the polarization...
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  • of an earthquake's seismic waves as recorded on a seismogram. Magnitude scales vary based on what aspect of the seismic waves are measured and how they...
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    generates radio waves for communication purposes; or radiolocation, such as radar and navigational transmitters. Generators of radio waves for heating or...
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    Phase spectrum Phase velocity Phasor Polarization (waves) Coherence (physics), the quality of a wave to display a well defined phase relationship in different...
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  • WavePiston is a concept to harness wave power using a long string with collector plates that move with the waves. Hydraulic pumps between the plates pump...
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    Retrieved March 11, 2020. Trapp, Malcolm (July 3, 2024). "Rod Wave Confirms The Untimely Passing Of Uncle Dee: "I Love [You] So Much"". Rap-Up. Archived from...
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