How to Use electromagnetic wave in a Sentence
electromagnetic wave
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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
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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
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The first thing to understand is that light is an electromagnetic wave.
—Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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The most common topic linked to Maxwell's Equations is that of an electromagnetic wave.
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 6 Aug. 2019
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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
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The electromagnetic wave that is the sunlight interacts with comet dust in essentially the same way.
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2019
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Time crystals behave in strange ways when they’re hit with electromagnetic waves.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2018
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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
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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
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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
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Both visible light and radio waves are types of electromagnetic wave.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 26 Sep. 2020
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Ripples in the field can be treated as electromagnetic waves or radiation or light.
—Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 24 May 2013
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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
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Heat can be lost directly, through radiation, in the form of electromagnetic waves.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2023
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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
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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
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Light is describable as an electromagnetic wave and as a particle, a photon.
—Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 3 July 2014
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Isolators are like one-way valves for electromagnetic waves.
—Jacob Demmitt, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2019
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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
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Those sensors emit electromagnetic waves that pick up on motion, then translate it into data.
—Wired, 30 July 2019
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This disturbance at the electron level means that those atoms also produce an electromagnetic wave.
—Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
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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
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What if Mando uses some other type of electromagnetic wave?
—Wired, 10 Dec. 2019
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The changing electric and magnetic fields are an electromagnetic wave.
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2019
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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
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Though the word radiation always conjures up a little something frantic in the gut, there is a diverse spectrum of electromagnetic waves, with big differences among them.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 14 May 2020
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Scientists used measurements of electromagnetic waves in order to map the water, which is trapped in porous sediments lying beneath the ocean.
—Fox News, 24 June 2019
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