Waves in sentence

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But we're not seeing all the waves out there.

So you have radio waves and microwaves and X-rays and gamma rays passing through your body right now and you're completely unaware of it, because you don't come with the proper biological receptors for picking it up.

So in the blind and deaf world of the tick, the important signals are temperature and butyric acid; in the world of the black ghost knifefish, its sensory world is lavishly colored by electrical fields; and for the echolocating bat, its reality is constructed out of air compression waves.

The waves were much higher than our boat, and the water poured in faster than the motor pumps could take it out.

More creative scenarios are also possible, like if you're the A.I., you can imagine wiggling electrodes around in your internal circuitry to create radio waves that you can use to communicate.

And the bacteria synchronize quite well at this scale, but because the molecule that synchronizes them together can only travel so fast, in larger colonies of bacteria, this results in traveling waves between bacteria that are far away from each other, and you can see these waves going from right to left across the screen.

She was two thirds of the way there, but in the storm, the waves were the size of a seven-story building.

The waves are tearing the boat to shreds.

Man: I mean, I know we were hoping for good waves, but I don't think anybody thought that was going to happen.

So if I was going to find perfect waves, it was probably going to happen somewhere cold, where the seas are notoriously rough, and that's exactly where I began to look.

I was blown away by the natural beauty of the landscape, but most importantly, I couldn't believe we were finding perfect waves in such a remote and rugged part of the world.

and once we got there, we were pushing aside these ice chunks trying to get into waves.

So this is the place where some of the largest, the most violent storms in the world send huge waves smashing into the coastline.

You traveled all this way, and this is exactly what you've been waiting for: freezing cold conditions with perfect waves.

I didn't know if I was drifting out to sea or towards shore, and all I could really make out was the faint sound of seagulls and crashing waves.

The waves were already 40 to 50 feet high, and the spray from the breaking crests was blown horizontally like snow in a blizzard.

It's a world of phantoms, where particles can also behave like spread-out waves.

Particles can behave like spread-out waves.

It involves gravitational waves.

But I had been washed away like a sand castle built too close to the waves, and in my place was the person people expected me to be.

For those that actually reach the surf, they trade one set of threats for another, as they first face the repelling force of the waves, and then find a whole new host of predators awaiting them: Various fish, dolphins, sharks, and sea birds, as the young turtles come to the surface for air.

But for our two southernmost islands, we had waves come over half the island, and so this has never happened before.

But, before we get to that, let's talk a little bit about waves in general.

This repetitive or periodic motion is characteristic of waves.

To use the physics jargon, you've measured the period of the waves that cork is bobbing on.

Frequency, as the name suggest, tells you how frequent the waves are.

If you know how many seconds one full wave takes, then it's easy to work out how many waves go by in one second.

In this case, since each wave takes 2 seconds, the frequency is 0.5 waves per second.

Color is nothing more than a measure of how quickly the light waves are waving.

But the frequency of the light we see is so high, it waves up and down about 400 million million times a second, that we can't possibly see it as a wave.

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