• Air Wave is the name of three superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The first two were active in the Golden Age of Comic...
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    where the wave amplitude appears smaller or even zero. Waves are often described by a wave equation (standing wave field of two opposite waves) or a one-way...
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  • cold wave (known in some regions as a cold snap, cold spell or Arctic Snap) is a weather phenomenon that is distinguished by a cooling of the air. Specifically...
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    A tropical wave (also called easterly wave, tropical easterly wave, and African easterly wave), in and around the Atlantic Ocean, is a type of atmospheric...
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    factors. As long as the waves propagate slower than the wind speed just above, energy is transferred from the wind to the waves. Air pressure differences...
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    Shock waves in air are heard as a loud "crack" or "snap" noise. Over longer distances, a shock wave can change from a nonlinear wave into a linear wave, degenerating...
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    heat wave or heatwave, sometimes described as extreme heat, is a period of abnormally hot weather.: 2911  Definitions vary but are similar. A heat wave is...
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  • Trance Atlantic Air Waves (also known as TAAW), is a side project from Enigma's Michael Cretu. He had previously worked with Jens Gad on Enigma's 1996...
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    In physics, a standing wave, also known as a stationary wave, is a wave that oscillates in time but whose peak amplitude profile does not move in space...
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    Wavelength (redirect from Wave length)
    medium (for example, vacuum, air, or water) that a wave travels through. Examples of waves are sound waves, light, water waves and periodic electrical signals...
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    called a wave orbit. Gravity waves on an air–sea interface of the ocean are called surface gravity waves (a type of surface wave), while gravity waves that...
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  • examples of acoustic waves are audible sound from a speaker (waves traveling through air at the speed of sound), seismic waves (ground vibrations traveling...
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  • heat wave in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A heat wave is a prolonged period of unusually hot weather. Heat Wave or heatwave may refer to: Heat Wave (comics)...
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    Rogue waves (also known as freak waves, monster waves, episodic waves, killer waves, extreme waves, and abnormal waves) are huge and unpredictable surface...
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    reflected seismic waves. The method requires a controlled seismic source of energy, such as dynamite or Tovex blast, a specialized air gun or a seismic...
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  • wave when compared to the majority of those of the 1930s, 1988, 1976–78 and 1954–56, which were powered by extremely hot, dry, bare soil and/or air masses...
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    in ordinary air, deviating slightly from ideal behavior. In colloquial speech, speed of sound refers to the speed of sound waves in air. However, the...
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  • this heat wave, Death Valley recorded a record high temperature of 57 °C (134 °F) at Furnace Creek, which still remains the highest ambient air temperature...
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    Refraction (redirect from Wave refraction)
    but other waves such as sound waves and water waves also experience refraction. How much a wave is refracted is determined by the change in wave speed and...
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    possible to excite Zenneck wave type waves on flat metal-air interfaces and transmit power across metal obstacles. Longitudinal wave Body-centric wireless...
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    Sound (redirect from Sound wave)
    evoked by the oscillation described in (a)." Sound can be viewed as a wave motion in air or other elastic media. In this case, sound is a stimulus. Sound can...
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    of the air within this air current. They always occur in groups on the lee side of the terrain that triggers them. Sometimes, mountain waves can help...
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    inverter may produce a square wave, sine wave, modified sine wave, pulsed sine wave, or near-sine pulse-width modulated wave (PWM) depending on circuit design...
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    America heat wave was an extreme heat wave that affected much of Western North America from late June through mid-July 2021. The heat wave affected Northern...
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    A seismic wave is a mechanical wave of acoustic energy that travels through the Earth or another planetary body. It can result from an earthquake (or...
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    falling on the island sends off air waves, it does not produce sound if no human is within the distance where the air waves are strong enough for a human...
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    raising hands in the air and simultaneously shaking their open hand and moving their fingers back and forth. Sign language users also wave for "hello" and...
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    wave. The relation of frequency and wavelength in a radio wave traveling in vacuum or air is λ = c f   , {\displaystyle \lambda ={\frac {\;c\;}{f}}~...
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  • Matter waves are a central part of the theory of quantum mechanics, being half of wave–particle duality. At all scales where measurements have been practical...
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    A bow wave is the wave that forms at the bow of a ship when it moves through the water. As the bow wave spreads out, it defines the outer limits of a...
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