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Wavelength Summary
449 words, approx. 2 pages
Wavelength is the distance between two points of the same phase in consecutive cycles on a periodic wave. Wavelength can be expressed in many units of distance, the most logical being the meter. However, because so many kinds of electromagnetic...
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Wavelength Information
479 words, approx. 2 pages
In physics, wavelength is the distance between repeating units of a propagating wave of a given frequency. It is commonly designated by the Greek letter lambda (λ). Examples of wave-like phenomena are light, water waves, and sound...


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The Virginian Pilot
Pick a wavelength, any wavelength.(Business)
12/18/2006: 1,553 words, approx. 5 pages
Byline: JON W. GLASS NEWPORT NEWS -- BY Jon W. Glass THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT NEWPORT NEWS - The search for a weapon that could knock down an incoming cruise missile drew the Navy. A possible cure for adult acne attracted a Harvard...
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The Boston Globe
Dillers wavelength
05/25/1992: 970 words, approx. 3 pages
Just when you think you know everything about Phyllis Diller she surprises you. In 1962, Diller did a major interview with the late Alex Haley that ran in the Saturday Evening Post. "That wasn't our first meeting," she said in a phone interview...
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Spectroscopy
The Electromagnetic Spectrum: A History
3/1/2007: 2,014 words, approx. 7 pages
When a person says the word "light," a listener — even a spectroscopist — usually interprets that as meaning "visible light." That's not unexpected, because throughout most of recorded history the only light that we recognized was light that we could see. However, that changed...
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AP News
Scientists to shut down space telescope
10/9/2007: 251 words, approx. 1 pages
Having coaxed all the life they can out of an 8-year-old ultraviolet light-detecting space telescope, scientists will reluctantly turn it off later this month.After that, NASA's Fuse observatory will be "just another piece of space junk," orbiting the earth every 100 minutes until it falls...
 


 

Wavelength

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