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Wave power key
to Sun's hot corona
by Dr Emma Rigby
for ASTRONOMY NOW
Posted: 01 August 2011 ...
Wave/Particle Duality :
Wave/particle duality is the possession by physical entities (such as light and electrons) of both wavelike and particle-like characteristics.
Definition: wave-particle duality: The principle of quantum mechanics which implies that light (and, indeed, all other subatomic particles) sometimes act like a wave, and sometimes act like a particle, ...
The period P of a wave is related to its frequency f by the equation:
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A wave is a mode of energy transfer from one place to another, often with little or no permanent displacement of the particles of the medium (i.e. little or no associated mass transport); ...
In contrast, wave functions are 3 dimensional, spread over space. Yet their basic modes can also be classified, and interestingly, the scheme of modes turns out similar to the one based on Kepler motion, ...
Gravitational wave
Gravity waves refer to different (but basically similar) concepts in fluid dynamics and electrodynamics.
Fluid dynamics ...
Until the Atacama Large Millimeter Array is constructed in Chile, this instrument will be the most powerful millimeter wave interferometer in the world.
Wave Function
(a) The mathematical object in quantum theory which determines probabilities of different results of experiments. It is a complex quantity, so it has an amplitude (whose square gives the probability) and a phase-angle.
WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY - Principle of quantum mechanics implying that light (and, indeed, all other subatomic particles) sometimes acts like a wave, and sometime acts like a particle, depending on the experiment being performed.
wave A pattern that repeats itself cyclically in both time and space. Waves are characterized by the velocity with which they move, their frequency, and their wavelength.
WAVE MOTION
Despite the early confusion still reflected in the modern terminology, scientists now know that all types of electromagnetic radiation travel through space in the form of waves.
Wave power is the transport of energy by ocean surface waves, and the capture of that energy to do useful mechanical work ? for example for electricity generation, desalination, or the pumping of water ....
and solar. Nuclear
Nuclear power ...
Mach wave 1. A shock wave theoretically occurring along a common line of intersection of all the pressure disturbances emanating from an infinitesimally small particle moving at supersonic speed through a fluid medium, ...
shock wave
a powerful wave caused by a sudden change in density, pressure, or temperature that travels though a medium faster than sound travels through that same medium
short-period comet ...
SHOCK WAVE - Abrupt perturbation in the temperature, pressure and density of a solid, liquid or gas, that propagates faster than the speed of sound.
Shock Wave
A sudden change in pressure that travels as an intense sound wave.
Sidereal Drive ...
Shock wave: A powerful compressional wave that lasts for an extremely brief time. Shock waves are created by explosive events, such as the impact of a meteorite on a planetary surface.
Plasma Wave Detectors
Plasma wave detectors typically measure the electrostatic and electromagnetic components of plasma waves in three dimensions.
Density Wave Theory
(a) One possible explanation for spiral arms. According to this theory, the spiral arms represent regions of somewhat enhanced density (density waves) that rotate more slowly than the galaxy's stars and gas.
Seismic Wave - Waves that travel through the interior of a planet or satellite and are produced by earthquakes or their equivalent
Seismometers - Sensitive devices used to measure the strengths and arrival times of seismic waves ...
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RADIO WAVE
A type of energy that is made by charged particles such as electrons moving back and forth.
RE-ENTRY
The return of a spacecraft into Earth's atmosphere.
WAVE PATTERNS NEAR THE KEELER GAP
Wave patterns in the rings an exciting Voyager discovery.
WAVE FUNCTION
A wave function (also called Schrodinger's Equation) is a differential equation in quantum theory that mathematically describes probability density of an object in space and time.
Wave Clouds
Wave clouds usually occur at the lee of a large obstacle. They are often found at the edge of the polar cap, and in the Tharsis and Lunae Planum regions. (Courtesy Calvin J. Hamilton) ...
Wave and Plasma Analyzer (APV-V):
The primary objectives of this investigation were: ...
wave guide - (n.)
special transmission medium resembling a pipe and often having a rectangular cross section, inside of which radio waves may be propagated.
wavelength - (n.) ...
The wave nature of light means there will be a shift in the spectral lines of an object if it is moving. This effect is known as the doppler effect.
'Big Wave' Theory Challenges 'Dark Energy'
Internet Hookup Would Make Appliances More Efficient
Experts: Warp Drive Is Possible ...
Shock Wave
A high-pressure wave that travels at supersonic speeds. Shock waves are usually produced by an explosion.
Short-Period Comet ...
SHOCK WAVE
A shock wave is a very strong pressure wave in any elastic medium (such as air, water, or a solid), produced by supersonic craft, lightning, explosions, or other extreme phenomena that create sudden, huge changes in pressure.
[11.1] WAVE MOTION / STANDING WAVES
[11.2] ACOUSTICS & MUSICAL SOUND / SONAR
[11.3] REFLECTION, REFRACTION, & DIFFRACTION / STANDING WAVES ...
KELVIN WAVE
The Kelvin wave is a gentle but huge swell of warm water in the Pacific Ocean. This mass of water is a few degrees warmer than surrounding water, is only 5-10 cm high, but is hundreds of kilometers wide.
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density wave theory
Theory proposed to account for spiral arms as compressions of the interstellar medium in the disk of galaxies.
differential rotation ...
A shock wave is produced which passes, in two hours, through the outer layers of the star causing fusion reactions to occur. These form the heavy elements.
The shock wave forms a cone of pressurized air. A sharp release of pressure after the buildup of a shock wave is heard as a sonic boom. It is similar to the sharp release of pressure when a pin pops a balloon and makes a loud noise.
Continuous Wave (CW) transmission is when there is an electromagnetic carrier wave present and the message signal, be it voice, video or data, is impressed upon the carrier by modulating its amplitude, phase or frequency.
Sensing the wave front requires a bright source, a laser beam, a bright star, a planet, or an asteroid.
The shock wave from the ejections that released on the 20th hit the Earth early in the morning, around 5 AM Eastern time. Geomagnetic activity did not reach high levels, but some aurorae were seen. ...
When a shock-wave passes Earth, our planet's magnetosphere is disturbed causing a geomagnetic storm.
The size of a wave from the top of a wave crest to its midpoint.
Angular Momentum ...
A ribbon-like wave structure with small
convective features in Saturn's clouds
that marks a westward jet is seen in this
image, whose smallest resolved features
are 40 miles (65 km) in diameter (more).
If light is a wave phenomenon, then a medium is required. Sound waves travel through the air but not through a vacuum; ripples require a watery medium. At first it was thought that air would be the medium that would support the propagation of light.
Interference, Wave: A wave is something that moves along and has high points (crests) and low points (troughs).
damped wave Any wave whose amplitude decreases with time or whose total energy decreases by transfer to other portions of the wave spectrum. damping The suppression of oscillations or disturbances; the dissipation of energy with time.
The mostly accepted theory of the spiral arms is the density wave theory. It says that the stars indeed rotate at different speed, but the density of the interstellar medium form a wave.
Seyfert galaxies. A kind of so-called 'active' galaxy. Seyfert galaxies have fairly small but bright nuclei and weak spiral arms. These galaxies are also strong emitters of radio wave energy.
Hydromagnetic Wave
a wave in which both the plasma and magnetic field oscillate.
In some spirals, a wave organizes the stars in the center into a bar. The arms of barred galaxies spiral outward from the ends of the bar. The Milky Way falls into this class of spirals.
wave equation
Finding the roots of a quadratic equation
net ionic equation
more language equations - answers
Clausius Clapeyron equation
Airy equation
equation
Diophantine equation
Poisson's equation
chemical equation ...
The name has no reference to the appearance of the body to the eye; when emitting energy, its radiations will he of all wave-lengths, and if intense enough will appeal to the eye as luminous between about wave-lengths 7600 and 4000 tenth-metres; ...
Long-wave infrared measures give a vastly larger radius of up to 5 AU and greater, as big as the orbit of Jupiter, while shorter-wave infrared light gives as small as 3 AU.
An alternative spiral-making mechanism is known as the spiral density wave mechanism.
A large shock wave is produced by the explosion. The shock wave can travel through space and can compress gas clouds, which will lead to new star formation.
This up-down motion occurs at a certain rate say, 1 million times per second, the frequency of a 1-megahertz AM (medium-wave) radio station.
This transition area, called the Mohorovicic discontinuity, is prominently revealed by seismic wave analysis. It is believed that most basaltic magmas are generated near the base of the upper mantle at a depth of about 400 kilometres.
Image-1, from Malin Space Science Systems titled "Mars Orbiter Camera Mars Weather Update for Solar Conjunction 2002" shows a massive dust storm probably riding on a cold wave from the north polar region of Mars during the first week in August 2002.
But light also exhibits the characteristics of a wave. Traditionally, wave activity is explained by imagining a pebble being dropped into a lake, but that imaginary lake has been filled with imaginary pebbles years ago.
Since Jansky's original work was done at 20 MHz (about 15 metre wave length) and a beam width of about 25 degrees, Reber wanted to narrow the effective beam width to obtain finer detail.
 See also: Field, Solar, Planet, Light, Telescope
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