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:
“Oh Lolita, you are my girl, as Vee was Poe’s and Bea Dante’s, and what little girl would not like to whirl in a circular skirt and scanties?”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Yet
I trust the sanity of my vessel; and
if it sinks, it may well be in answer
to the reasoning of the eternal voices,
the waves which have kept me from reaching you.”
—Frank O’Hara (1926–1966)