The Waves Essays

  • Sound Waves

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    a sound wave? A sound wave is produced by a mechanical vibration, such as a tuning fork. The vibrating object causes the surrounding medium, such as air, to vibrate as well.The wave travels through the medium to a detector, like your ear, and it is heard.As with any type of wave, a sound wave is also described by it's wavelength, amplitude, period, and frequency. WAVELENGTH is the distance from one point on the wave, to the next identical point, or the length of one part of the wave. AMPLITUDE

  • Ultrasound Waves

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    When you take ultrasound waves and apply them to your patient’s skin, the sound waves that are transmitted from your transducer and into your patient’s tissue go through a series of changes. The sound waves can be reflected, refracted, scattered about and also attenuated. Attenuation is defined as the decrease in wave amplitude (or intensity) due to the mechanical wave interaction with the medium, meaning that it is a measure of how the wave is affected by the medium. (Miele, 43). When looking

  • The Last Wave

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    The Last Wave SOC 118 "The Last Wave"-Peter Weir dir.(1977) In the film, The Last Wave, the director is trying to communicate the idea of a culture within a culture or sub culture. The dominant culture in the film is the white members of society living in Australia. The subculture in the film is the Aborigines who were natives to the land before the white people settled in Australia. The natives sustained their cultural beliefs and ideologies while living in largely populated cities. The dominant

  • waves

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    SUBSIDIARY LEVEL WAVES SUMMARY 4.1 Travelling wave characteristics A medium is a material through which a wave passes. When a wave passes, each part of the medium moves away from its normal position and then returns. This is called an oscillation. Oscillations within the medium are slight movements either side of the normal position. The wave motion is the disturbance that passes through the medium. A wave pulse causes the medium to have one oscillation. A continuous travelling wave causes the medium

  • Ruling The Waves

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    Essay on Spar's Ruling the Waves After finishing this book, I immediately thought to myself, "finally!" To explain, the book was not a very fun and entertaining read by any means. At times I found myself reading a couple pages just to get myself tired and ready for bed. However I did feel that this book was very educational and brought up some great points and ideas. Written by Debora Spar, a Harvard professor, I found myself struggling through some chapters simply because of the vocabulary

  • Sound Waves In Music

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    of mathematics.” As an avid musician, I chose to study the topic of how math applies to music, more specifically how sound waves are transmitted. My passion for music urged me to research the sounds that are made and how they are produced. Music is transmitted through sound waves, which are very similar to the sine waves studied in Trigonometry. The differences in the waves result in a different sounds that are transmitted. Vibrating objects travel through a medium (the material that the disturbance

  • Radio Waves

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    radio waves, to us, radio waves were just waves going through the atmosphere, carrying sound from one place to another. Those were our ignorant days! We did not realize the complicated terms and theories involved. In the following report you will see how we advanced in our knowledge of radio waves, and we hope it will do the same for you. Radio waves are a combination of two kinds of electric vibrations. Audio frequency waves, which represent voice and other sounds and radio frequency waves, which

  • ‘The Wave by Morton Rhue

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    with life's challenges, as it was displayed in the book ‘The Wave' written by Morton Rhue. There were a majority of students who were not resilient with the wave and the challenges that emerged from it, such as Amy, Robert and David. The student that was surprisingly resilient was Laurie, who was also the main character of the story. Laurie was mentally and also physically strong at dealing with the consequences that upshot from the wave Such as the isolation from the entire school and her best friend

  • Tidal and Wave Power

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    Tidal and Wave Power Tidal power operates by building a barrier across a river estuary. The tidal flow drives turbines to produce electricity. Europe's only tidal power station is at Rance in Northern France. Some sites in the U.K could be developed to provide tidal power but the drawback is that these schemes affect the habitat of wildlife such as birds and fish because they alter the tidal currents. Also, barrage will only provide power for about 10 hours per day. Power for the other

  • Sound Waves Essay

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    device to the ear buds, the vibrations emerge from the ear buds into the ear canal. The vibrations are then transported through the auditory system to the brain to be transposed into what people call music. These signals and vibrations are called sound waves. But what really is music? What is sound? How do these random vibrations make these occurrences? What is music? Music is defined as an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm

  • The Importance Of Electromagnetic Waves

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    INTRODUCTION Electromagnetic waves propagate in waves with several measurable characters, namely: wavelength, amplitude and speed frequency. The amplitude is the wave height, whereas the wavelength is the distance between the two peaks. The frequency is the sum waves passing through a single point in a single unit of time. The frequency depends on the speed of wave propagation. hence, the speed of the electromagnetic energy is constant. Electromagnetic energy has a very important role in everyday

  • Radio Waves

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    Radio Waves In the modern society, radio is the most widely used medium of broadcasting and electronic communication : it plays a major role in many areas such as public safety, industrial manufacturing, processing, agriculture, transportation, entertainment, national defense, space travel, overseas communication, news reporting and weather forecasting. In radio broadcasts, they use the radio waves which can be both microwaves and longer radio waves. These are transmitted in two ways: amplitude

  • Brain Wave Genereation

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    Theory behind BrainWave Generator EEG and the brain's state EEG (Electroencephalography) technology is used to measure brain's electrical vibrations from the surface of the scalp. The resulting EEG pattern will contain frequency elements mainly below 30Hz. The frequencies are categorized into four states as follows: State Frequency range Amplitude State of mind Delta 0.5Hz - 4Hz high (up to 200uV) Deep sleep Theta 4Hz - 8Hz low (5uV - 20uV) Drowsiness (also first stage of sleep) Alpha 8Hz - 14Hz

  • Mechanical Waves Essay

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    “A wave is a transfer of energy from one point to another with no transfer of matter.” (Walding Et Al, 1999) Waves that require matter to propagate are referred to as mechanical waves; whereas electromagnetic waves comprise of those that do not necessitate matter to propagate. (Walding Et Al, 1999) Mechanical waves can further be divided into two sub-branches: longitudional and transverse waves. Longitudional waves occur when the particles of matter used by the wave to propogate, vibrate parallel

  • The Wave Rhue Analysis

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    The progression of The Wave in Gordon High School throughout the novel The Wave by Rhue Morton, reviewing the themes of conformity (the draw of community), individualism and authoritarianism. The Wave is a reenactment of what happened in the Holocaust but inside a classroom. Ben Ross starts the progression of The Wave, he thought that this would help the students in his class understand what happened in the Holocaust and believed that he would stay in control and have power of the progression in

  • Sound Waves Essay

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    of music, or even the terrible sound of a car crashing, but what is a sound wave? And how do sound waves work? A wave can be defined as a disturbance that travels through a medium, which carries energy. Medium is just the material in which the wave causes disturbance. On earth most of the mediums are, oxygen and water. “The basis for an understanding of sound, music and hearing is the physics of waves. Sound is a wave that is created by vibrating objects and propagated through a medium from one

  • Conformity In The Wave By Morton Rhue

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    The Wave by Morton Rhue is a fictional story based on an incident that occurred in a Gordon High School. A history teacher, Ross conducts an experiment to explain the cruel behavior of the German Nazis during to Holocaust. He’s starts an organisation called The Wave in his class, which then spreads rapidly through the school. Rhue uses characterization and character journey to develop the progression of the wave. Robert Billings, who loves the idea of The Wave, conforms to it strait away; David Collins

  • Frequency, Resonance and Radio Waves

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    Although most people do not know what it takes to keep radios working. In a radio there are many elements needed to keep a radio working frequency, resonance and radio waves are all elements needed to power a radio. Frequency means the number of incidence of a repeating event per unit of time. Frequency sends sound signals on a radio wave. FM also stands for frequency modulation. FM and AM are the main chiefs of sending music and words. Frequency receives the name temporal frequency. FM is better than

  • HAARP Radio Wave Generator

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    HAARP HAARP is an extremely low frequency radio wave generator. It stands for High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. It is a massive antennae array up in Alaska on the Copper River Basin. It’s altitude fluctuates between 1000 and 3000 feet above sea level. It is operated by the US military, more specifically the Navy and Air Force. It operates between 2.8 and 10 MHz. It was also voted one of the 10 most under reported news stories of the year by journalists. Scientific Perspectives-

  • Faith in Kierkegaard's Breaking the Waves

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    Faith in Kierkegaard's Breaking the Waves In Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, he discusses the "Three Movements to Faith." For Kierkegaard, faith of any kind involves a paradox. This paradox, as well as Kierkegaard's suggested path to faith, is illustrated by the main characters of Breaking the Waves, Bess and Jan. Kierkegaard explains there are steps one can take towards faith; however, they are so difficult he believes only one person, the "Knight of Faith," has completed the movements