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Wonderful Waves Wonderful Waves!

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Talk for grade 4 at my son's school, Science Week 2004

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Page 1: Wonderful waves

Wonderful WavesWonderful Waves!

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What is a wave? Everyday waves How do we make waves? Sound and Light Scary Monster waves

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Sound-wave miracle: a Tuvan musician can sing two(or three!) notes at once

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Waves on waves ....

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... on waves ...

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... on barriers ...

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. . . . to understand How we can use X-ray waves . . . .

Sensitive photo-film goes dark where X-rays hit

DNA

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Another kind of wave: the bubble wobble

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Some monster Waves:

Rogue sea waves

Tsunamis

Shock waves

Supernova blasts

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Rogue or “freak” waves can sink a ship!

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The tsunami

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Sonic shock in a wind tunnel

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Sonic shock wavesSonic shock wavesfrom from planesplanes

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Supernova Blast Wave: the star maker

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It is a wave? It is a shock?

No: it's a Smoke Ringor

vortex structure

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Blast, shock, sound, and “smoke rings” — in one event

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The End