When the wave enters shallow water, it slows down and its amplitude ( height ) increases.

The wave further slows and amplifies as it hits land.

Therefore, a strong shock wave forms ahead of the ejecta, that heats the upstream plasma up to temperatures well above millions of K. The shock continuously slows down over time as it sweeps up the ambient medium, but it can expand over hundreds of thousands of years and over tens of parsecs before its speed falls below the local sound speed.

When a wave enters shallow water it Wave shoaling | shoals, that is, it slows down and the wave height increases.

When this occurs, an oblique shock wave is generated at the point where the flow slows down back to subsonic speed.

When this occurs, the water slows in a rather abrupt rise ( a step or standing wave ) on the liquid surface.

The presence of this ramp slows the propagation of the wave over it.

Air passing through the conical shock wave ( and subsequent reflections ) slows to a low supersonic speed.

In theory the dielectric coating is a requirement, it slows the wave and focuses it along the wire.

A large bow wave slows the ship down, poses a risk to smaller boats, and in a harbor can cause damage to shore facilities and moored ships.

The bow wave carries energy away from the ship at the expense of its kinetic energy — it slows the ship down.

Tuners, Sport Bikes, Exotics, the Lexus SC430, Mercedes Benz SL500 and the Cadillac XLR in " Remix " inget " Zone " ( which essentially slows down time, allowing for more precise handling at high speed ), Trucks / SUVs and Luxury Cars ( except for the Lexus SC430, Mercedes Benz SL500 and Cadillac XLR in " Remix ") get " Aggro " ( which makes the vehicle temporarily unstoppable, allowing it to plow through traffic and other obstacles more easily ), and Muscle Cars and Choppers get " Roar " ( the only offensive ability, it launches a sonic wave that blows away anything in its path including traffic, opponents, and police vehicles ).

One looked down on a sea of leaves, a breaking wave of flower.

Each wave state has a single discrete spin ( spin up or spin down ).

The pulsatile nature of blood flow creates a pulse wave that is propagated down the arterial tree, and at bifurcations reflected waves rebound to return to semilunar valves and the origin of the aorta.

President Bill Clinton ( center ), first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton ( right ) and their daughter Chelsea Clinton ( left ) wave to watchers at a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, January 20, 1997.

In these areas the wave energy breaking against the cliffs is higher, and air and water are compressed into cracks in the rock, forcing the rock apart, breaking it down.

When the antidromic stimulus reaches the motor neuron cell bodies, a small portion of the motor neurons backfire and orthodromic wave travels back down the nerve towards the muscle.

They also contribute to the desired effect of converting the ( kinetic energy ) push of the sloped wave face combined with the rider's mass on the sloped wave face ( potential energy ) into redirected energy-lift ( lift ( physics ))-the surfer deflects his surfboard and fins off the water of the wave face ( and / or vice-versa ) to make forward progress across the wave face, or " down the line ," that is, parallel to the wave crest and beach-riding parallel to the crest ( perpendicular to the pull of gravity down the wave's slope ) in this way is known as " trimming.

Rail fins also add lift ( known as " drive ") in trim and with greater holding ability, enable steeper wave faces to be ridden and higher speed " down the line.

In these systems a " carrier " radar signal is frequency modulated in a predictable way, typically varying up and down with a sine wave or sawtooth pattern at audio frequencies.

A surfer rides down a wave as it breaks

In fact, the modern explanation of the uncertainty principle, extending the Copenhagen interpretation first put forward by Bohr and Heisenberg, depends even more centrally on the wave nature of a particle: Just as it is nonsensical to discuss the precise location of a wave on a string, particles do not have perfectly precise positions ; likewise, just as it is nonsensical to discuss the wavelength of a " pulse " wave traveling down a string, particles do not have perfectly precise momenta ( which corresponds to the inverse of wavelength ).

it was noted by Bohr that the existence of any sort of wave packet implies uncertainty in the wave frequency and wavelength, since a spread of frequencies is needed to create the packet itself.

In states where a quantum mechanical particle is bound, it must be localized as a wave packet, and the existence of the packet and its minimum size implies a spread and minimal value in particle wavelength, and thus also momentum and energy.

* The dependence of wave velocity on frequency or wavelength:

Numerical approximation of diffraction pattern from a slit of width equal to wavelength of an incident plane wave in 3D spectrum visualizationNumerical approximation of diffraction pattern from a slit of width equal to five times the wavelength of an incident plane wave in 3D spectrum visualization

Light of composite wavelengths ( natural sunlight ) disperses into a visible spectrum passing through a prism, because of the wavelength dependent refractive index of the prism material ( dispersion ); that is, each component wave within the composite light is bent a different amount.

A wave consists of successive troughs and crests, and the distance between two adjacent crests or troughs is called the wavelength.

where v is the speed of the wave ( c in a vacuum, or less in other media ), f is the frequency and λ is the wavelength.

As a wave, it is characterized by a velocity ( the speed of light ), wavelength, and frequency.

Diffraction of a plane wave at a slit whose width is several times the wavelength

Diffraction of a plane wave when the slit width equals the wavelength

It produces a spherical wave with wavelength λ, wavenumber k = 2π / λ.

* Lambda indicates the wavelength of any wave, especially in physics, electronics engineering, and mathematics.

This law mathematically follows from the interference of a plane wave on a flat boundary ( of much larger size than the wavelength ).

If two waves of the same wavelength and frequency are in phase, both the wave crests and wave troughs align.

Alternatively, if the two waves of the same wavelength and frequency are out of phase, then the wave crests will align with wave troughs and vice-versa.

In an eigenstate of momentum having a plane wave form, it can be shown that the wavelength is equal to h / p, where h is Planck's constant and p is the momentum of the eigenstate.

Radar waves scatter in a variety of ways depending on the size ( wavelength ) of the radio wave and the shape of the target.

If the wavelength is much shorter than the target's size, the wave will bounce off in a way similar to the way light is reflected by a mirror.

The waves travel slower in the more shallow water, so the wavelength decreases and the wave bends at the boundary.