Think of gravity waves as waves moving through stable air. When you look at waves in the ocean, there are high parts and low parts to that wave. Clouds need lift to materialize in the atmosphere.
The pounding that sailors’ brains take from years of high-speed wave-slamming in the Special Boat Teams can cause symptoms that wreck their careers — and their lives.
Berry used mathematical means to investigate what would happen to the neutron if the direction of the magnetic field changed slowly. According to the so-called adiabatic theorem, which was introduced ...