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  2. Atmospheric focusing - Wikipedia

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    The shock wave is impacted by what the meteor is made of, temperature, and pressure. [1] Because the meteors need to have a large size and mass, there is only a small percentage of meteors that can create these shock waves. [2] Radar and Infrasonic methodologies are able to detect meteor shock waves. These tools are used to study these shock ...

  3. Shock wave - Wikipedia

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    In fact, correct capturing and detection of shock waves are important since shock waves have the following influences: (1) causing loss of total pressure, which may be a concern related to scramjet engine performance, (2) providing lift for wave-rider configuration, as the oblique shock wave at lower surface of the vehicle can produce high ...

  4. Human echolocation - Wikipedia

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    Human echolocation is the ability of humans to detect objects in their environment by sensing echoes from those objects, by actively creating sounds: for example, by tapping their canes, lightly stomping their foot, snapping their fingers, or making clicking noises with their mouths.

  5. Entoptic phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    Another way in which the shadows of blood vessels may be seen is by holding a bright light against the eyelid at the corner of the eye. The light penetrates the eye and casts a shadow on the blood vessels as described previously. The light must be jiggled to defeat adaptation.

  6. Solar radio emission - Wikipedia

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    Solar radio emission refers to radio waves that are naturally produced by the Sun, primarily from the lower and upper layers of the atmosphere called the chromosphere and corona, respectively. The Sun produces radio emissions through four known mechanisms, each of which operates primarily by converting the energy of moving electrons into ...

  7. Undercompressive shock wave - Wikipedia

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    A shock wave is undercompressive if the Lax conditions are not fulfilled. A sharp wave front may remain sharp whilst travelling even when perturbations behind the front travel slower than it. An experiment can be made to show this with travelling liquid steps : a thick film is spread on a thin one.

  8. Shortwave (meteorology) - Wikipedia

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    Shortwave troughs are a cause of lift, or forcing, which is required for the development of thunderstorms and convection.Convection is very prevalent around shortwave troughs because not only do they provide forcing, but they are also associated with systems that provide other ingredients for the formation of thunderstorms, such as instability, wind shear, and helicity.

  9. The Eyes (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The Eyes is a short story written by Edith Wharton, a prolific writer best known for The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth. It was first published in a June 1910 version of Scribners Magazine , along with a collection of nine other short stories titled Tales of Men and Ghosts .