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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. Electroretinography - Wikipedia

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    If a dim flash ERG is performed on a dark-adapted eye, the response is primarily from the rod system. Flash ERGs performed on a light adapted eye will reflect the activity of the cone system. Sufficiently bright flashes will elicit ERGs containing an a-wave (initial negative deflection) followed by a b-wave (positive deflection).

  4. Alfvén Mach number - Wikipedia

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    It is used in plasma physics, where it is analogous to the Mach number but based on Alfvén waves rather than sound waves. Alfvén and Mach were physicists who studied shock waves. Along with the sonic Mach number, the Alfvén Mach number is frequently used to characterize shock fronts [1] [2] [3] and turbulence [4] [5] in magnetized plasmas.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Schlieren photography - Wikipedia

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    Shock waves produced by a T-38 Talon during flight using analog background-oriented schlieren. Background-oriented schlieren technique (BOS [7]) relies on measuring or visualizing shifts in focused images. In these techniques, the background and the schlieren object (the distortion to be visualized) are both in focus and the distortion is ...

  7. Electrooculography - Wikipedia

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    To measure eye movement, pairs of electrodes are typically placed either above and below the eye or to the left and right of the eye. If the eye moves from center position toward one of the two electrodes, this electrode "sees" the positive side of the retina and the opposite electrode "sees" the negative side of the retina.

  8. Optography - Wikipedia

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    Optography is the process of viewing or retrieving an optogram, an image on the retina of the eye. A belief that the eye "recorded" the last image seen before death was widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a frequent plot device in fiction of the time, to the extent that police photographed the victims' eyes in several ...

  9. Kelvin wake pattern - Wikipedia

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    Other waves with phase speeds at or below v, however, are amplified through constructive interference and form visible shock waves, stationary in position w.r.t. the boat. Typical duck wake. The angle θ between the phase shock wave front and the path of the object is θ = arcsin(c/v).