Sentence examples for beam of waves from inspiring English sources

The diagram shows a beam of waves passing from right to left through a series of layers (d1, d2, d3) of a medium.

IN 1887 Albert Michelson and Edward Morley used an interferometer (a device that splits and recombines a beam of waves, to determine whether the recombined beam is still coherent) to measure the speed of light.

A second antenna rotated and sent out a narrow beam of waves that, when directed north, coincided in phase with those of the first antenna; that is, the peaks of the waves from the two antennas reached the receiver at the same instant.

High symmetry is also an asset for Bloch wave simulations, as we can limit the beam of plane waves (beams) included in the basis set to a small number.

They rotate and emit a beam of radio waves, rather like a lighthouse.

Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutrons stars that emit a beam of radio waves.

In this case, the beam of electromagnetic waves is merely diverging as no condition of total internal reflection exists in a uniform medium such as air.

For astrophysicists, glitches are important because they ought to give a unique insight into the internal dynamics of pulsars, spinning neutron stars with a magnetic field so powerful that they emit a beam of radio waves along the axis of the magnetic field.

The primary kind is what most of us understand: a beam of radio waves being sent out from a ground station, bouncing off anything in its path, with that reflection picked up by the ground station and used to work out the location of the plane or other target.

Now a group of bioengineers at the University of Washington in Seattle hopes to develop devices that treat internal bleeding, bleeding during surgery and even tumours by the same method a carefully focused beam of ultrasound waves.Shahram Vaezy and his team have developed high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) devices that can focus the ultrasound to a point as small as one millimetre in size.

In 2006, Philip Marston of Washington State University, Pullman, described a similar pull using a Bessel beam of sound waves.