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Topic: Shock Wave

Related:
  Wave    Shock  
  New Wave    Water Waves  
  First Wave    Sound Waves  
  Ocean Waves    Radio Waves  
  Light Waves    Wave Energy  
  Sine Wave    Shock Absorbers  

 
 
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Favorite possession(s):Gas oven
Favorite body part(s):Ears,  Lungs
Most admires:Albert Einstein
Currently has on their coffee table:New Scientist
Favorite great thinker(s):Ampere,  Arthur C Clarke,  Stephen Hawking
Interest(s):Physics,  Astronomy,  Chemistry
Dream job(s):Astronaut
Favorite sport(s):Surfing
Favorite destination(s):The Moon
Ultimate fantasy(s):Destroying Civilization
Medical note(s):Undergoing therapy,  Produces Anthrax in their basement
Favorite author(s):Virginia Woolf
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Angela Berkley,
High School Student

The shock waves or tremors from the Gujurat earthquake lasted about two minutes, followed by aftershocks for more than a month.
Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster

The resultant shock waves created shallow elliptical depressions which are best displayed in the sandy sediments of the Coastal Plain.
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

The shocks thereby dissipate mechanical energy in the waves as heat.
The resultant shock waves travel outwards for hundreds of thousands of miles.
Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

The shock waves broke up the parts of the nebula and some locations begun to rotate and collapsed into regions of star formation.
Tidal waves of shock and grief moving with the speed of satellite TV have washed across this land and all the way around this planet.
Tony Howell,
Skateboarder

Shock waves – high-energy waves originating from a spark plug – are used to dissolve the kidney stones.
Billie Kirgan,
Machinist

Shock waves dissipate within the confines of the plenum without interfering with the shock waves emitted from an adjacent stack.
Jake Farley,
Truck Driver

Shock waves are generated by pounding the earth with a vibrator truck or by exploding small dynamite charges in shallow holes.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Such shocks waves are relevant to a wide range of theories of galaxy and primordial star formation.
Shock waves stimulate the metabolic reaction of tissue, causing development of stress fibers and/or change in membrane permeability.
Supernova shock waves are one possible mechanism for this acceleration.
 
 
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