Sentence examples for strikes the surface from inspiring English sources

Light tends to course down a microns-thick fiber instead of leaking out of the side, because it only strikes the surface of the fiber at a very small glancing angle and is reflected back into the glass.

The beam-lumen method is quite similar to the method used for interior lighting except that the utilization factors has to take into consideration the fact that floodlights are not usually perpendicular to the surface and therefore not all of the useful light strikes the surface.

Simulations of the molecular trajectories within the reactor produce a relationship between an observed integral conversion and the probability of reaction when a gas molecule strikes the surface; low reaction probabilities are integrated experimentally in a manner which makes them readily observable.

For a (simplified) mechanism, a sticking coefficient S can be defined (9) S = r a 2 ⋅ P tot where ra denotes the adsorption rate of dissociatively bound atomic oxygen per unit area and Ptot the rate per unit area at which the adsorptive (O2) strikes the surface.

This equation suggests that: reflective surfaces inherently scatter more light, shorter wavelengths scatter more than longer wavelengths, and maximum scattering occurs when light strikes the surface at normal incidence.

AO strikes the surfaces of materials with sufficient energy to break chemical bonds.

Recently a major comet struck the surface of Jupiter.

A meteorite is a larger fragment, from pebble to boulder-sized, that survives to strike the surface of the Earth.

Every day and every night somewhere in one of the world's oceans my father is striking the surface of the abyss with swords of fire.

Abrasive fragments borne by a stream of liquid or gas may wear down a surface if they strike the surface at high speeds.

If Beagle survived this far, it would have inflated a set of huge airbags, encasing it in a soft cocoon before striking the surface at around 36mph.