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The Water And The Waves - Online Term Paper

The Water And The Waves

Imagine that we stand on any ordinary seaside pier, and watch the waves
rolling in and striking against the colums of the pier. Large blue waves
pay little attension to those columns - they divide right and left and
unite after passing each column, much as a army of soldiers would if a tree
stood in their path: it is almost as though the columns had not been there.
But the short waves and ripples find the columns of the pier a much more
formidable obstacle. When the short waves impinge on the columns, they are
sent back and spread as new ripples in all directions. The obstical
provided by the iron columns hardly affects the long waves at all, but
scatters the short ripples.

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through a jug of water, or as Nature
demonstrates to us when she passes it through the raindrops of a summer
shower and produces a rainbow. We also know that light consists of waves,
and that the different colors of light are produced by waves of different
lengths, red light by long waves and blue light by short waves. The
mixture of waves which constitutes sunlight has to struggle through the
obstacles it meets in the atmosphere, just as the mizture of waves at the
seaside has to struggle past the columns of the pier. And these obstacles
treat the light-waves much as the columns of the pier treat the waves. The
long waves which constitute red light are hardly affected, but the short
waves which constitute blue light are scattered in all directions. ...

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Added: 3/1/2008 03:53:34 PM
Category: Science & Nature
Type: Premium Paper
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