Sentence examples for path is bent from inspiring English sources
Thus, if the light beam begins to move from the core into the cladding, its path is bent so as to move it back into the core.
How much their path is bent reveals their mass.
Each time the electrons' path is bent, they emit bursts of energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation.
Because they are electrically charged, their paths are bent by the Milky Way's magnetic field.
They have been known for a century, but their origin remains mysterious because, being electrically charged, their paths are bent by the galaxy's magnetic field.
When a stream of fast particles impinges on the atoms of a crystal, their paths are bent into a regular pattern, which can be recorded by directing the diffracted beam onto a photographic film.
In construction, it consists of a high-power microscope the optical path of which is bent so that the user can conveniently inspect the work from one side when the instrument is set up in the spindle of the machine.
General relativity predicts that the path of light is bent in a gravitational field; light passing a massive body is deflected towards that body.
When sunlight travels into these water droplets, it changes direction (this is called refraction) and the important part is that the path of blue light is bent a bit more than red light.
One consequence of the warping of space by gravity is that the path of light from background galaxies is bent when it passes near a cluster, in much the same way that a glass lens will bend light.
