The incoming wave packet, its tail extending ahead of it, approaches the chamber.
The overall result is an outgoing wave exactly the same in shape and intensity as the incoming wave; the outgoing wave just leaves early, before the peak of the incoming wave even arrives.
Classically, this is understood as resulting from the large driving forces of the electric fields of the incoming wave on the atomic oscillators.
Nancy was more fearless and reckless than I was, which annoyed me, so once I pulled her under an incoming wave and sat on her head.
What has really happened is that the incoming wave has "paid back" the cesium atoms that lent energy on the other side of the chamber.
The comparison of the crowd to an incoming wave, "coming and not yet come – a sort of noise and retention" is a brilliant one.
The electrons initially absorb energy from the incoming wave as they are set in motion, and they redirect that energy in the form of scattered light of the same frequency.
If the side of the chamber facing the incoming wave is called the near side, and the other the far side, the sequence of events is something like the following.
I stood at the edge of the rocks and threw him out to safety into deeper water, just as an incoming wave lapped over my shoes, completing the time honoured rock-pooling experience.
Part of an earlier generation of refugees, imbued with nostalgia for the storied, soulful Eastern Europe of her parents' past, Lewycka seems to look on the incoming wave with less indulgence and more mortification than a nonimplicated person might.
Or perhaps it is because the region has been trampled by invaders so often that another incoming wave of people in helmets – this time plastic ones – is given a cautious welcome.
