Essays Tagged: "beam of light"

A Futuristic Interview With Romeo

he times.' So sit back, relax, and watch as the past becomes the present.(Lights dim, machine hums, beam of light appears center stage. Through the beam, people are visible, walking seemingly unaware ... na, Italy, and the year is 1523. To be precise, the third of May.(Romeo cautiously peers into light beam. It seems he is the only one aware of it.)ANN: (To Romeo) Do not be afraid, come forward. (Beck ...

(5 pages) 42 0 4.6 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet

Fiber Optic Cable facts

Emission ofRadiation) or LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes). Each of these methods create a highlyfocused beam of light that is cycled on and off at very high speeds. Computers at thetransmitting end conver ... Emission ofRadiation) or LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes). Each of these methods create a highlyfocused beam of light that is cycled on and off at very high speeds. Computers at thetransmitting end conver ...

(5 pages) 126 0 2.0 Jan/1995

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Lasers

The laser is a device that a beam of light that is both scientifically and practically of great use because it is coherent light. ... t like radio waves in the way that it can also carry information. The information is encoded in the beam as variations in the frequency or shape of the light wave. The good part is that since light wa ... rmation.Not only is the particle the smallest light unit but it is a particle as well as a wave. In beams of light whether they are ordinary natural or artificial the photon waves will not be travelin ...

(3 pages) 40 0 4.3 Feb/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Current research on psychology of creativity

the last remaining problem before piecing together the sewing machine.*Einstein's "train ride on a beam of light" which taught him--and us--his Theories of Relativity and remade the whole of physics, ... erties of light when he visualized himself sitting on a train that was moving a bit slower then the beam of light he was following. He then went on to formulate the theory of Relativity on the basis o ...

(11 pages) 276 0 3.0 Jul/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

More Bio notes from next lesson on Cells and Microscopes.

icroscope, to the viewer, everything would be a blur, and not at all useful.Light microscopes use a beam of light passing through one or more lenses to produce an enlarged image of the object or speci ... layer of metal. Like the picture on a television set, the image is formed one line at a time as the beam of electrons scans the specimen from side to side. The electrons that bounce off the specimen f ...

(3 pages) 82 2 5.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Shadow of Darkness

ouse. Curtains of darkness eclipsed the gleaming moonlight outside his bedroom window; only a small beam of light emitted from the black night. He didn't know how he knew, but he did. Something bad wa ... ethal nature, he reached up with one hand and turned on the light."Darn!" he heard a voice say; the beam of the flashlight disappeared. He heard the nervous sound of running feet. He sat up in bed, ho ...

(2 pages) 21 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Example Monologue "Trapped"

ng her in complete darkness)This is not happening. Not to me. I can't believe this. Not even a tiny beam of light. Why there are no windows in this basement? Is it too hard to place one tiny little wi ...

(3 pages) 14270 0 5.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Sensation and Perception

hat light shines only through the front) into a very dark room. After placing all 15 cards over the beam of light, slowly remove the cards one at a time until you can barely detect the light, and then ...

(3 pages) 258 0 5.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Sensation & Perception

James Hillier devlopment of the Electron Microscope

ted the world's first practical electron microscope. Electron microscopes work by focusing a beam of electrons, rather than a beam of light. The wavelength of electrons is much smaller than the ... tion and depth of focus. In 1938, Hillier and Prebus produced a microscope that worked by passing a beam of electrons through a carefully prepared sample. The beam was then focused on a photographic p ...

(1 pages) 1898 0 0.0 May/2005

Subjects: Science Essays

Man!!

stic of a fashion maybeBut naught he could grasp did aid him, lost he was thereinThence perchance a beam of light fell on his faceThrough clouds and fell drops of rain, it cometh forthDawning of an un ...

(1 pages) 1001 0 0.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Biometrics

rrect position for scanning.? The Retina Scan is accurate, but invasive. The retina scan involves a beam of light that allows the computer scanner to access the blood vessel pattern on the back of the ...

(11 pages) 84 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

The Michaelson-Morley experiment

crossed paths with the orbiting earth one could describe an ether wind, meaning that at one point a beam of light traveling in a fixed direction on earth would be parallel with this wind and at anothe ... ne another. This meant that as the ethereal wind passed across the device, if properly aligned, one beam of light would be moving parallel to the wind, and one would move perpendicular to it. As the t ...

(6 pages) 2785 0 0.0 May/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

The Physical Properties of Light

t experiment around 1801. To show that light is capable of destructive interference, Young passed a beam of light through two slits parallel to each other in a tube, and from the other end resulted a ... physicist Augustin Fresnal presented findings of his own experiments in 1819. By shining a focused beam of light on a point of an object like a penny and then witnessing the pattern the light and sha ...

(5 pages) 15 0 5.0 Jun/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

The Ghostly Awakening

n all about my birthday party the previous day. I looked around my dark room. All I could see was a beam of light shining trough a crack in my window. Then a shock of horror entered my frightened body ...

(2 pages) 1059 0 5.0 Sep/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Expiriment- Colours

ay box was placed on a sheet of white paper.2.A triangular prism was placed on the paper and a full beam of light was shone onto it.3.The prism was turned until the spectrum of colours formed.4.Variou ... roper filters are meant to absorb all other colours and transmit their colour.PART BMethod:1.A full beam of light was shone onto a piece of red card. This was done four times with four different colou ...

(2 pages) 1496 0 0.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Chemistry Study Notes - Electrons and Light

shold energy required to eject an electron from the metal (light did not provide sufficient energy)-beam of light is a stream of tiny particles called photons-a photon is a particle of electromagnetic ...

(4 pages) 18 3 4.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry