Light Waves

Some articles on light waves, light, lights, light wave:

Sound Film - History - Early Steps
... technology, involving the transformation of sound into light waves that are photographically recorded direct onto celluloid ... by a microphone and translated into light waves via a light valve, a thin ribbon of sensitive metal over a tiny slit ... The sound reaching this ribbon would be converted into light by the shivering of the diaphragm, focusing the resulting light waves through the slit, where it ...
Light Waves Concept, Inc
... Light Waves Concept, Inc, is an LED and track lighting manufacturer headquartered in Brooklyn, New York City ... Slavis and Light Waves Concept, Inc participated in Prospect Park in Lights, a holiday ceremony sponsored by the NY Daily News and announced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg ... Using 600,000 of the company’s LED lights, artist Jim Conti illuminated the landmark park with lighting installations at all four entrances ...
Luminiferous Aether - The History of Light and Aether
... Isaac Newton contended that light was made up of numerous small particles ... This could explain such features as light's ability to travel in straight lines and reflect off surfaces. 1704) postulated an "Aethereal Medium" transmitting vibrations faster than light, by which light, when overtaken, is put into "Fits of easy Reflexion and easy Transmission", which ...
Transparent Materials - Absorption of Light in Solids - Infrared: Bond Stretching
... When a light wave of a given frequency strikes a material with particles having the same or (resonant) vibrational frequencies, then those particles will absorb the energy ... absorb different frequencies (or portions of the spectrum) of infrared light ... Reflection and transmission of light waves occur because the frequencies of the light waves do not match the natural resonant frequencies of vibration of the objects ...

Famous quotes containing the words waves and/or light:

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    “The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn’t perceive such things outside of us.”
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