Waves

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NYSSLS Reading Passages: Waves

Waves How Doppler Radar Decodes the Sky
A Doppler radar dome sends a microwave pulse toward a rainstorm; the echo returns with a shifted frequency that reveals the storm's wind speed and direction
Inside the rotating dome that spots a tornado before it touches down — how a shift in the frequency of a returning microwave pulse reveals a storm's wind speed and direction, not just where the rain is falling. Open Reading Passage
Waves Sound Waves & Active Noise Cancellation
Superposition of sound waves: two in-phase waves add up to a wave twice as tall (louder), while a jet-engine noise wave plus its inverted anti-noise wave add up to a flat line (silence)
How can adding more sound to a noisy airplane cabin make it quieter? A close look at superposition, phase, and the inverted sound wave that flattens the constant drone of a jet engine into near silence. Open Reading Passage