17 results for “wave”
Matter, Energy & Physics
The Quantum World
Waves In 1924 Louis de Broglie suggested that if light waves could behave as particles, then
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Light
Waves Light is an electromagnetic wave, a ripple in electric and magnetic fields travelling through space
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Sound
wave carries, which we see as the height of the wave on a graph. It is measured
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Electricity and Magnetism
wave. He calculated the wave's speed and found it was the speed of light. Light
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Gravity
waves, so faint that he doubted they could ever be detected. A century later, in September
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Planet Earth
Inside the Earth
waves travel faster through dense rock, some cannot pass through liquid at all, and all of them
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Space & the Universe
Galaxies and the Milky Way
waves of higher density, like a traffic jam that persists even as individual cars pass through
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Animals
Whales and Dolphins
waves that wash seals off ice, techniques taught to young and passed down for generations. Pods
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Planet Earth
Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes
waves of a quake and send warnings seconds before the destructive shaking arrives, enough time to stop
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The Human Body
The Senses
waves, molecules drifting in the air, pressure on the skin: none of these are experiences in themselves
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The Human Body
Sleep and Dreams
waves become slow and large, breathing and heart rate fall, and it is hard to wake
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Animals
The Octopus
waves of colour across its body as it moves. It does all this despite being, as far as we can tell
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The Human Body
Digestion
wave of muscle contraction carries it down the oesophagus to the stomach in about eight seconds
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Planets & the Solar System
Saturn
waves along their edges. Where did the rings come from? Perhaps a moon that strayed too close
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Space & the Universe
The Life of a Star
wave, perhaps from a nearby exploding star, nudges a clump into collapsing. As it shrinks it heats
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Planet Earth
Volcanoes
waves. Volcanoes and climate A big eruption changes the weather for the whole planet. Ash falls
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Space & the Universe
The Big Bang
The universe began 13.8 billion years ago as something hotter and denser than anything we can
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