Circular Waves
When the rippler is attached with a point spherical ball and lowered so that it just touches the surface of the water, circular waves will seem to be produced.
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Famous quotes containing the words circular and/or waves:
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—Penelope Leach (20th century)
“the whole sea become an entanglement of watery bodies
lost to the world bearing what they cannot hold. Broken,
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they cry out, failing, failing! their cries rising
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