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... waves , yet so arbitrary a substance seems more a placebo to quiet the disturbed mind than a valid explanation of a physical phenomenon . When we come to the waves of quantum mechanics , the physicists do not even offer us a single ...
... waves , yet so arbitrary a substance seems more a placebo to quiet the disturbed mind than a valid explanation of a physical phenomenon . When we come to the waves of quantum mechanics , the physicists do not even offer us a single ...
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... waves leave the radar antenna and are reflected back again at the rate of billions of waves or cycles per second . The waves in the ocean each take several seconds to pass us , so the frequency of the ocean waves is a fraction of a ...
... waves leave the radar antenna and are reflected back again at the rate of billions of waves or cycles per second . The waves in the ocean each take several seconds to pass us , so the frequency of the ocean waves is a fraction of a ...
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... wave other than the sine wave will change in form as it travels , sine waves of different frequencies ( and hence of different wave lengths ) travel with different velocities .... [ 10 : 82-85 ] In paragraph 13 , Pierce notes that the ...
... wave other than the sine wave will change in form as it travels , sine waves of different frequencies ( and hence of different wave lengths ) travel with different velocities .... [ 10 : 82-85 ] In paragraph 13 , Pierce notes that the ...
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