my chair out of his office‚ and headed for the boardwalk. The sun is setting; the ocean waves are crashing against the shore pounded with the rhythm of my beating heart. Spending the rest of my life in a wheelchair meant giving up the things I love‚ no dancing‚ no high heels‚ no hiking‚ no beach-combing. As I watched as the waves rose up‚ curled‚ then crashed; drew back into the sea. With each crash‚ the waves seemed to pull a piece of my life out to sea‚ saying‚ no more. . . no more. ... I couldn’t
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Electromagnetic waves in space See the book “Optics” by Hecht sections 3.2 and 3.3 Speed of light: EM waves travel in a vacuum with speed c = c = 299‚792‚458 ms-1 exactly They are transverse waves with (vector) E and B field orthogonal to each other‚ for this section bold indicates vector quanties. When far from the source (many wavelengths) the E and B fields are in phase The vector E x B points in the direction of motion Travelling waves can be written as E = E 0 ⋅ ei ( kx −ωt ) and B = B 0 ⋅ ei
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1.0 What Causes the Tides Tides are periodic rises and falls of large bodies of water. Tides are caused by the gravitational interaction between the earth and the moon. Tides are the cyclic rising and falling of earth’s ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the moon and the sun acting on the earth . Tides cause changes in the depth of the sea and produce oscillating currents known as tidal streams‚ making prediction of tides important for coastal navigation. The strip of seashore
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seven different waves. The waves are in the order of how big the wavelength is and its frequency‚ from the biggest to the smallest: Radio waves‚ Micro waves‚ Infrared‚ Visible light‚ Ultra Violet‚ X-rays and Gamma rays. Each of them has their own special use in everyday life. For example‚ to turn on a TV you need to use Radio waves‚ to heat your food you use Microwaves and X-rays are used to look into people’s bodies. Some waves‚ like Radio waves can be as big as a building or waves like Gamma rays
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The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck is a short novel about two young boys who live in Japan. When the big wave comes and takes Jiya’s family‚ Jiya is raised by Kino’s parents‚ but he must make a life decision when people begin rebuilding the fishing village on the deserted beach. The Big Wave is a heartwarming story that exemplifies the theme that life is stronger than death The tsunami kills many of the fisherman and their families in the village. Jiya is from one of these families but was able to escape
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The basis for an understanding of sound‚ music and hearing is the physics of waves. Sound is a wave which is created by vibrating objects and propagated through a medium from one location to another. In this unit‚ we will investigate the nature‚ properties and behaviors of sound waves and apply basic wave principles towards an understanding of music. As discussed in the previous unit of The Physics Classroom‚ a wave can be described as a disturbance that travels through a medium‚ transporting
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What does tradition mean to you? In the Sound of Waves tradition is valued greatly. The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima deals with two young adults who fall in love with each other and have to deal with the gossip of the town. Mishima uses characterization to develop the theme “Tradition will always be valued more than modernization” throughout the Sound of Waves. Mishima uses the relationships of the townspeople to represent the importance of tradition on the island. “Like this I should be able
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Waves are mainly known for their way of transferring energy from one place to another without transferring any matter.Transverse and longitudinal are waves in which can be related to one another in some kind of way. A transverse wave is a wave in which vibrates perpendicular to the direction of the waves motion. As a transverse wave travels through a medium‚ the individual particles of the medium move perpendicular to the direction of the wave travel. They may occur in a string‚ in the surface of
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what is a wave? a wave is a disturbance which travels through a medium and transfers energy from one point to another without causing any permanent displacement of the medium itself. if a stone is dropped in a pond or swimming pool‚ ripples or waves are seen spreading on the surface of the water from the point where it was dropped. the water itself does not move in the direction of the ripples‚ but the waves transfers energy from one point to another. there are two major classes of waves ; mechanical
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Transgressing Monolingualism and Bilingual Dualities: Translanguaging Pedagogies Ofelia García‚ Nelson Flores and Heather Homonoff Woodley A. Yiakoumetti (ed.). Harnessing Linguistic Variation for Better Education. Peter Lang. Throughout the world language minorities are most often educated in schools that have been designed for language majorities. Usually they are educated only through the medium of the dominant state language. But even when they are given the opportunity to be educated
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