Waves in sentence

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If we keep adding waves, we can make a wave packet with a clear wavelength in one small region.

There's a good probability of finding it within some range of the center of the wave packet, and we made the wave packet by adding lots of waves, which means there's some probability of finding it with the momentum corresponding to any one of those.

If you want to reduce the position uncertainty by making a smaller wave packet, you need to add more waves, which means a bigger momentum uncertainty.

The stone causes waves to travel in the water at the same speed in every direction.

Similarly, even though we cannot see it, a stationary sound source, like a home stereo, creates sound waves traveling outward.

The speed of the waves depends on factors like the altitude and temperature of the air they move through.

But instead of circles on a two-dimensional surface, the wave fronts are now concentric spheres, with the sound traveling along rays perpendicular to these waves.

As the source keeps moving in a certain direction, the successive waves in front of it will become bunched closer together.

But as long as the source is moving slower than the sound waves themselves, they will remain nested within each other.

As it overtakes sound waves it has emitted, while generating new ones from its current position, the waves are forced together, forming a Mach cone.

Stephen Hawking: I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.

Pizarro and his conquistadors had grown rich, and tales of their conquest and glory had reached Spain and was bringing new waves of Spaniards, hungry for gold and glory.

It sounded like ocean waves constantly crashing, and as we got closer, I saw smoke, vapor, coming up through the trees.

In fact, one of the most famous fictional universal translators, the Babel fish from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", is not a machine at all but a small creature that translates the brain waves and nerve signals of sentient species through a form of telepathy.

So the best that our little savings accounts or retirement accounts can do is to try to catch some waves in the good cycles and hope that we don't get inundated in the turbulent ones, but certainly our decisions on how to steer our little retirement accounts don't affect the tides, don't change the shape or size or direction of the waves.

Why can't we make some waves?

Electromagnetic radiation is pure energy consisting of interacting electrical and magnetic waves oscillating through space.

As these waves oscillate faster, they scale up in energy.

We might download an email to our phone via radio waves to open an image of an X-ray print, which we can see because our screen emits visible light.

All that energy was pumped into the fabric of space and time itself, making the Universe explode in gravitational waves.

And on September 14 of 2015, just days after the detector had gone live, the gravitational waves from those colliding black holes passed through the Earth.

Allan Adams: So that's my very good friend and collaborator, Scott Hughes, a theoretical physicist at MIT, who has been studying gravitational waves from black holes and the signals that they could impart on observatories like LIGO, for the past 23 years.

So the trouble with gravitational waves is that they're very weak; they're preposterously weak.

So towards the end of his classic text on gravity, LIGO co-founder Kip Thorne described the hunt for gravitational waves as follows: He said, "The technical difficulties to be surmounted in constructing such detectors are enormous.

So, the same is true of gravitational waves.

But by listening to changes in the amplitude and frequency of those waves, we can hear the story that those waves are telling.

So if we convert the wave patterns into pressure waves and air, into sound, we can literally hear the Universe speaking to us.

With gravitational waves, we should be able to see all the way back to the beginning.

These are the ribbons of light, like you might see on the bottom of a pool, that are created when the sun bends through the crests of the ripples and waves on the ocean's surface.

While I was there, I collected images and inspiration for a new body of work: drawings of waves lapping on the coast of a nation that could be entirely underwater within this century.

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