Extended Claim: Knowledge of different types of waves, and their motion through the ocean and the continents allows prediction of the possible extent of damage or the timing of tsunamis and earthquakes.
Britannica database: Wave types
Access Science database: Wave types and tsunamis
Earth Data: Making Waves in Tsunami Research
SMS-Tsunami Warning: Tsunamis and other wave types
TerryTao: The shallow water wave equation and tsunami propagation
LA Times: Ocean waves help quake scientists make predictions for the Big One
Nature.com: Long-period ocean-bottom motions in the source areas of large subduction earthquakes
Reflects significant progress in tsunami research, monitoring and mitigation within the last decade. Primarily meant to summarize the state-of-the-art knowledge on physics of tsunamis, it describes up-to-date models of tsunamis generated by a submarine earthquake, landslide, volcanic eruption, meteorite impact, and moving atmospheric pressure inhomogeneities. Models of tsunami propagation and run-up are also discussed. The book investigates methods of tsunami monitoring including coastal mareographs, deep-water pressure gauges, GPS buoys, satellite altimetry, the study of ionospheric disturbances caused by tsunamis and the study of paleotsunamis. Non-linear phenomena in tsunami source and manifestations of water compressibility are discussed in the context of their contribution to the wave amplitude and energy. The practical method of calculating the initial elevation on a water surface at a seismotectonic tsunami source is expounded. Potential and eddy traces of a tsunamigenic earthquake in the ocean are examined in terms of their applicability to tsunami warning.
Extended Claim: Using an understanding of the behaviour of sound waves, acoustical engineering can reduce noise pollution by planning structures that absorb sound waves or that do not reflect and amplify sound in an unwanted way.
Access Science database: Acoustic engineering and sound waves
Silica aerogel/polyester blankets for efficient sound absorption in buildings
Boston University: Making the world a lot quieter
Science Daily: Engineers develop one-way transmission system for sound waves
International Journal of Recent Research Aspects: Sound dampening device using attenuator
Sound strategy - Architectural acoustics and insulating
Science Direct: Vibro-acoustic analysis of parallel barriers integrated with flexible panels
Journal of Fluid Mechanics: Spectral broadening of acoustic waves by convected vortices
University of Michigan: Origami sonic barrier could reduce traffic noise
Extended Claim: Applying knowledge of waves and resonance has improved the design of sporting equipment to allow for greater performance by athletes.
Lumen Learning: Standing waves and resonance
All About Circuits: Standing waves and resonance
Macquarie University: Standing waves and resonance
Google Books: Materials and sports equipment
Note: various pages will be missing.
May be useful to see which types of sports equipment have benefitted.
The creation and regulation of sports equipment for the future
EXTENDED CLAIM: Improvements in the field of optics have revolutionised the way information is communicated over the past 50 years.
Science Daily: Optical system promises to revolutionize undersea communications
Intechopen.com: Advancements in optical data transmission and security systems
Science Direct: Optical fibre transmission
Medium.com: Advancements in optical communication
The optics are good - vendors weigh in on optical developments in communications technology and test solutions
From EE-Evaluation Engineering. Sept, 2019, Vol. 58 Issue 9, p13, Published by Endeavour Business Media.
Research Gate: The changing trends of optical communications
EXTENDED CLAIM: Developments in the way materials interact with light will have profound implications for a range of industries over the next 25 years.
Data of the future may ride light waves
From Science News. 12/21/2019, Vol. 196 Issue 11
Physicists use light waves to accelerate supercurrents, enable ultrafast quantum computing
Scientists use light to accelerate supercurrents, access forbidden light, quantum properties
Researchers tame silicon to react with light for next-generation microelectronics
From: NewsRx Health & Science, Publisher: NewsRX LLC, June 27, 2021.
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Physics of Tsunamis
