Mention surf songs, and the Beach Boys immediately hang ten in the ... And all these years later, the sound waves still reverberate. Click through and revisit the California surf scene of the ...
For water waves and sound waves the unit hertz is usually good enough but radio and TV waves have such a high frequency that the kilohertz (\(kHz\)) or even the megahertz (\(MHz\)) are better units.
The enormous surf that has battered the West Coast from Southern California all the way to Oregon created some truly mesmerizing swells at NoCal's famed Mavericks Beach in Half Moon Bay.
Ultrasound, like audible sounds, is transmitted by means of longitudinal waves. Ultrasound is used in medicine to break up kidney stones and gall stones. It is also used, in a process known as ...