How to Use electromagnetic wave in a Sentence

electromagnetic wave

noun

• By changing the phase of the light’s electromagnetic wave — shifting where the troughs and peaks of the wave fell — the researchers encoded the photon with a 0 or 1 at each station.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2018
• The first thing to understand is that light is an electromagnetic wave.
  — Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
• However, the electromagnetic wave from the atoms will be at a different frequency than that of the light that entered the glass.
  — Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
• If the transmitters all emit electromagnetic waves in sync, the beam will be sent out straight ahead—that is, perpendicular to the array.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
• The French government asked Apple earlier this week to cease sales of the iPhone 12 because tests showed that the device emits electromagnetic waves that are too strong.
  — Mark Gurman, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
• The most common topic linked to Maxwell's Equations is that of an electromagnetic wave.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 6 Aug. 2019
• Remember that light is an electromagnetic wave, and all of these waves travel at the speed of light (3 x 108 m/s) but with different wavelengths.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
• The electromagnetic wave that is the sunlight interacts with comet dust in essentially the same way.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2019
• Time crystals behave in strange ways when they’re hit with electromagnetic waves.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2018
• The name comes from the luminiferous ether that was at one point thought to be the medium through which electromagnetic waves propagate, like sound waves propagate through air.
  — Iljitsch Van Beijnum, Ars Technica, 29 June 2023
• By measuring the way electromagnetic waves traveled through fresh and saline water, researchers mapped out fresh-water reservoirs for the first time.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 22 June 2019
• Power for the pipelines and pods comes in the form of an electromagnetic wave that's generated through magnetic motors, like those used in roller coasters.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2020
• Since freshwater is not as good of a conductor of electromagnetic waves as salt water, the freshwater stood out.
  — Doug Criss, CNN, 26 June 2019
• In the case of radio, each station is assigned a unique electromagnetic wave that oscillates at its own frequency.
  — Scott Coyle, The Conversation, 31 May 2024
• Both visible light and radio waves are types of electromagnetic wave.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 26 Sep. 2020
• Ripples in the field can be treated as electromagnetic waves or radiation or light.
  — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 24 May 2013
• Objects emit electromagnetic waves across a broad spectrum, some visible to the human eye as light, but all detectable by the telescopes currently in use on Earth or in orbit.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2017
• Heat can be lost directly, through radiation, in the form of electromagnetic waves.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2023
• The scheme depends on the fact that light can be polarized, so that the electromagnetic waves oscillate either in a horizontal or a vertical plane.
  — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2018
• In the case of Maxwell’s equations, a Dyson map allows classical electromagnetic waves to be studied in the space utilized by quantum computers.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
• Light is describable as an electromagnetic wave and as a particle, a photon.
  — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 3 July 2014
• Isolators are like one-way valves for electromagnetic waves.
  — Jacob Demmitt, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2019
• Often, they are used to guide waves along desirable paths, whether that means electromagnetic waves or physical waves caused by vibration.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
• Those sensors emit electromagnetic waves that pick up on motion, then translate it into data.
  — Wired, 30 July 2019
• This disturbance at the electron level means that those atoms also produce an electromagnetic wave.
  — Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
• With this system, there is no security risk, because there are no unencrypted electromagnetic waves sent out into the air to hack.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2022
• What if Mando uses some other type of electromagnetic wave?
  — Wired, 10 Dec. 2019
• The changing electric and magnetic fields are an electromagnetic wave.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2019
• Set at a video game studio in modern-day Johannesburg, the series kicks off as an electromagnetic wave hits the studio, frying equipment and the bioelectric signals in people’s brains.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 21 Oct. 2021
• For instance, Maxwell himself figured out that a prediction from those equations is that something called electromagnetic waves could exist.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024