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  2. Electromagnetic absorption by water - Wikipedia

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    The spectrum of ice is similar to that of liquid water, with peak maxima at 3400 cm −1 (2.941 μm), 3220 cm −1 (3.105 μm) and 1620 cm −1 (6.17 μm) [14] In both liquid water and ice clusters, low-frequency vibrations occur, which involve the stretching (TS) or bending (TB) of intermolecular hydrogen bonds (O–H•••O).

  3. Polarization (waves) - Wikipedia

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    Polarization can be defined in terms of pure polarization states with only a coherent sinusoidal wave at one optical frequency. The vector in the adjacent diagram might describe the oscillation of the electric field emitted by a single-mode laser (whose oscillation frequency would be typically 10 15 times faster).

  4. Magneto-optic effect - Wikipedia

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    A magneto-optic effect is any one of a number of phenomena in which an electromagnetic wave propagates through a medium that has been altered by the presence of a quasistatic magnetic field. In such a medium, which is also called gyrotropic or gyromagnetic , left- and right-rotating elliptical polarizations can propagate at different speeds ...

  5. Dispersion (water waves) - Wikipedia

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    The effect of frequency dispersion is that the waves travel as a function of wavelength, so that spatial and temporal phase properties of the propagating wave are constantly changing. For example, under the action of gravity, water waves with a longer wavelength travel faster than those with a shorter wavelength.

  6. Faraday effect - Wikipedia

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    Michael Faraday holding a piece of glass of the type he used to demonstrate the effect of magnetism on polarization of light, c. 1857.. By 1845, it was known through the work of Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Étienne-Louis Malus, and others that different materials are able to modify the direction of polarization of light when appropriately oriented, [4] making polarized light a very powerful tool to ...

  7. Brunt–Väisälä frequency - Wikipedia

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    The Brunt–Väisälä frequency commonly appears in the thermodynamic equations for the atmosphere and in the structure of stars. Trajectory of a parcel of fluid displaced by 1m in an unstably stratified fluid of Brunt-Väisälä frequency N 2 = −1/ s 2 Oscillations of a parcel of fluid initially displaced by 1m in a stably stratified fluid ...

  8. Radio propagation - Wikipedia

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    Radio propagation is the behavior of radio waves as they travel, or are propagated, from one point to another in vacuum, or into various parts of the atmosphere. [1]: 26‑1 As a form of electromagnetic radiation, like light waves, radio waves are affected by the phenomena of reflection, refraction, diffraction, absorption, polarization, and scattering. [2]

  9. Pockels effect - Wikipedia

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    For an example, the halfwave voltage is approximately 7.6 kV for a KDP crystal with a n o = 1.51, r 63 = 10.6X10-12 m/V at λ 0, and Δφ = π. [4] The advantage of using longitudinal Pockels cells is that the voltage requirements for quarter wave or half wave retardance is not dependent on crystal length or diameter.