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longer and waves
Coastlines with longer shores have more room for the waves to disperse their energy, while coasts with cliffs and short shore faces give little room for the wave energy to be dispersed.
This means that waves emitted by the source at times that are too far apart can no longer form a constant interference pattern since the relation between their phases is no longer time independent.
Finally, at radio wavelengths longer than 10 meters or so ( about 30 MHz ), the air in the lower atmosphere remains transparent to radio, but plasma in certain layers of the ionosphere of upper Earth atmosphere begins to interact with radio waves ( see skywave ).
Most surfboards intended for larger waves are longer ( to increase hull speed for paddling, wave-catching, and surfing ), and as most shapers orient the rail fins toward the nose of the board, a longer board inherently results in reduced toe-in of rail fins, therefore less negative angle of attack, less oscillation, greater stability, and higher speeds.
Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum longer than infrared light.
The left shift to a lower resonant frequency increases the volume of some low frequency sounds due to the longer waves propagated by the increased excursion of the hard diaphragm member suspended in the concentric accountic surround.
Tsunami waves do not resemble normal sea waves, because their wavelength is far longer.
Tsunami and tides both produce waves of water that move inland, but in the case of tsunami the inland movement of water is much greater and lasts for a longer period, giving the impression of an incredibly high tide.
Assuming a sinusoidal wave moving at a fixed wave speed, wavelength is inversely proportional to frequency: waves with higher frequencies have shorter wavelengths, and lower frequencies have longer wavelengths.
Similarly, if the length scales are much longer than the wave ’ s wavelength, as is often the case for light in the field of optics, one can treat the waves as light rays which correspond locally to plane waves.
Surface waves span a wide frequency range, and the period of waves that are most damaging is usually 10 seconds or longer.
Short wavelengths radiate primarily from the inner area, while longer waves reach the edge of the speaker.
During the 1930s women began to wear their hair slightly longer, in page boys, bobs or waves and curls.
An earthquake occurs, seismographs near the epicenter are able to record both P and S waves, but those at a greater distance no longer detect the high frequencies of the first S wave.
Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum longer than infrared light.
* Radio sounders from the ground can bounce radio waves of varying frequency off the ionosphere, and by timing their return get the profile of electron density in the ionosphere — up to its peak, past which radio waves no longer return.
Alternatively, so-called infragravity waves, which are due to subharmonic nonlinear wave interaction with the wind waves, have periods longer than the accompanying wind-generated waves.

longer and travel
However, if light travels at finite speed, the Earth, and therefore the eye piece of the telescope, moves from E to E ′ during the time it takes light to travel from S to E. Consequently, the star will no longer appear in the center of the eye piece.
Although it was possible for Westerners to pass from one to the other ( but only through strictly controlled checkpoints ) for most Easterners, travel to West Berlin or West Germany was no longer possible.
Between 1790 and 1840, Cambridge began to grow rapidly, with the construction of the West Boston Bridge in 1792, that connected Cambridge directly to Boston, making it no longer necessary to travel eight miles ( 13 km ) through the Boston Neck, Roxbury, and Brookline to cross the Charles River.
Another consequence was an expansion of freshwater environments, since continental runoff now had longer distances to travel before reaching oceans.
Criticisms and disadvantages of cycling include reduced protection in crashes, particularly with motor vehicles, longer travel time ( except in densely populated areas ), vulnerability to weather conditions, difficulty in transporting passengers, and the skill and fitness required.
In 1705, it was noted that electrostatic generator sparks travel a longer distance through low pressure air than through atmospheric pressure air.
* The Maverick Flying Dune Buggy was designed by the Indigenous People's Technology and Education Center as an off-road vehicle that could unfurl an advanced parachute and then travel by air over impassable terrain when roadways were no longer usable.
Equal transit-time states that because of the longer path of the upper surface of an airfoil, the air going over the top must go faster in order to catch up with the air flowing around the bottom, i. e. the parcels of air that are divided at the leading edge and travel above and below an airfoil must rejoin when they reach the trailing edge.
When pressed, it will push all fired rounds free simultaneously ( as in top break models, the travel is designed to not completely extract longer, unfired rounds ).
Suburbs typically have longer travel times to work than traditional neighborhoods.
This is due to three factors: almost-mandatory automobile ownership due to poor suburban bus systems, longer travel distances and the hierarchy system, which is less efficient at distributing traffic than the traditional grid of streets.
In remote areas such as the Northern Territory great care must be taken when sharing the road with longer articulated vehicles that often travel during the day time, especially 4 trailer road trains.
The vast majority of passenger travel occurs by automobile for shorter distances, and airplane or railroad for some people, for longer distances.
The advantage to a splat shot, beyond an unpredictable angle, is that it creates a longer distance to travel forward for the opponent who is held between a tension of going forward and staying back because of velocity of passing shots.
Carving turns are generally much smoother and longer than stemming, and keep the skis along the direction of travel as opposed to angled across it.
Mediumwave radio transmissions ( frequencies between 300 kHz and 3000 kHz ), including AM broadcast band, travel both as groundwaves and, for longer distances, as skywaves.
The widespread civil unrest made it no longer safe for merchants to travel as they once had, and the financial crisis that struck made exchange very difficult with the debased currency.
Their raids in the Adriatic increased rapidly, until the whole Sea was no longer safe for travel.
Due to the nature of relativistic travel ( see Twin paradox ), the twin who remained behind ages faster and eventually the affinity between them is weakened to the point that they are no longer able to communicate easily.
A high-occupancy vehicle lane ( also HOV lane, carpool lane, diamond lane, and transit lane or T2 or T3 lanes in Australia and New Zealand ) is a restricted traffic lane reserved at peak travel times or longer for exclusive use of vehicles with a driver and one or more passengers, including carpools, vanpools and transit buses.
On long distances, such as Oslo-Bodø and longer, air travel is the by far leading travel method.
During the day, frequencies higher than approximately 12 MHz can travel longer distances than lower ones.
No longer bound by his contractual obligations, he is now too old ; he is unable to pass the medical examination needed for space travel.

longer and faster
In a hospital environment, intravenous clonazepam, lorazepam, and diazepam are first-line choices, clonazepam due to its stronger and more potent anticonvulsant action, diazepam due to its faster onset and lorazepam for its longer duration of action.
Some services include express services which skip some stations in order to run faster and separate longer distance riders from short-distance ones.
These discs are usually faster, more stable, and have a longer range than a putter.
At first, the danger to a battle fleet was considered only to exist when at anchor, but as faster and longer range torpedoes were developed, the threat extended to cruising at sea.
After recovering, he continued to blow glass until he dislocated his right shoulder in a 1979 bodysurfing accident. No longer able to hold the glass blowing pipe, he hired others to do the work ; Chihuly explained the change in a 2006 interview, saying " Once I stepped back, I liked the view " and pointing out that it allowed him to see the work from more perspectives and enabled him to anticipate problems faster.
Shorter molecules move faster and migrate farther than longer ones because shorter molecules migrate more easily through the pores of the gel.
LEDs present many advantages over incandescent light sources including lower energy consumption, longer lifetime, improved physical robustness, smaller size, and faster switching.
* Although procedure times are usually slightly longer, hospital stay is less, and often with a same day discharge which leads to a faster return to everyday living.
Continued research into much longer ranged and faster versions led to the US's Navaho missile, and its Soviet counterparts, the Burya and Buran cruise missile.
Zubrin's alternative to this " Battlestar Galactica " mission strategy ( dubbed so by its detractors for the large, nuclear powered spaceships that supposedly resembled the science-fiction spaceship of the same name ) involved a longer surface stay, a faster flight-path in the form of a conjunction class mission, in-situ resource utilization and craft launched directly from the surface of Earth to Mars as opposed to be being assembled in orbit or by a space-based drydock.
Specific attention should be paid to blood pressure during the procedure and the level of the anesthetic should be regularly and appropriately topped up since non-epinephrine anestetics take longer to come into effect and wear off faster.
However, with the semiconductor industry ’ s need for both higher resolution ( to produce denser and faster chips ) and higher throughput ( for lower costs ), the lamp-based lithography tools were no longer able to meet the industry ’ s requirements.
The " Lombard " appeared in 1999, ( AKA: Bronze Keyboard ) a thinner, lighter, and faster ( 333 or 400 MHz ) PowerBook with a longer battery life and had both USB and SCSI built in and was a New World ROM Mac, and then the " Pismo " in 2000, which replaced the single SCSI port with two FireWire ports, updated the PowerBook line to AGP graphics, a 100 MHz bus speed, and DVD-ROM optical drives standard, in addition to dropping the " G3 " from the PowerBook name.
While the Greyhound is credited as being the fastest dog breed up to distances of around, both the Saluki and Whippet breeds are thought to be faster over longer distances.
Even the smallest eagles, like the Booted Eagle ( Aquila pennata ) ( which is comparable in size to a Common Buzzard ( Buteo buteo ) or Red-tailed Hawk ( B. jamaicensis )), have relatively longer and more evenly broad wings, and more direct, faster flight.
This enables the muscles to do work over a longer time and thus produce more energy than they otherwise could, while the elastic element releases that work faster than the muscles can.
Inventors may, for example, try to improve something by making it more effective, healthier, faster, more efficient, easier to use, serve more purposes, longer lasting, cheaper, more ecologically friendly, or aesthetically different, lighter weight, more ergonomic, structurally different, with new light or color properties, etc.
Finally free from financial problems, the D & RGW now possessed a direct route from Denver to Salt Lake City ( the detour south through Pueblo and Tennessee Pass was no longer required for direct service ), but a problem still remained: for transcontinental service, the Union Pacific's more northerly line was far less mountainous ( and, as a result, several hours faster ).
Tossing or stirring the items in the pan by shaking the pan too often, however, can cause the pan to cool faster and make the sauté take longer.
To avoid opening the pressure cooker too often while cooking vegetables with varying cooking times, vegetables that take longer to cook can be cut into smaller pieces and vegetables that cook faster can be cut into thicker pieces.
Vulcans are typically depicted as stronger, faster, and longer-lived than humans ( although discrepancies have occurred-and although not as long as Vulcans, humans have been shown to live longer in the Star Trek universe than today-presumably due to advances in medical science ).
The Steamship Authority operates most of the shorter routes, while other, smaller ferry services run faster, longer distance ferries to Rhode Island and Hyannis.

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