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How to model the form of a surface water wave?
Normal surface water waves, as generated by wind, do not have sine form but wave peak is higher and shorter than wave trough with different wave steepness. What parameters characterize such a surface ...
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Does $\lambda\nu = c$ hold for all the waves in the universe?
Are all waves in the universe the same as electromagnetic waves?
Basically, my question arises from an equation I found in my chemistry textbook:
$$\lambda \nu ~=~ c.$$
This states that the ...
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What phenomenon is responsible for the evolution pattern of waves created by waterfalls?
I have been fascinated lately by the pattern of the waves created by a waterfall in my town. Specifically, the pattern shows a gradual decrease in the density of the waves as they travel away from ...
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Wave with mass transport?
I don't think this question has been asked on this forum before (at least I didn't find it).
In the case of a tsunami, an earthquake generates a wave which will travel with the sea/ocean as the ...
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What makes sound when a huge wave is coming in an ocean? [closed]
normally at ocean beaches the waves are normal but they make lot of that a person standing at far can even listen that sound
What makes that sound what going to happen a
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What makes waves at beaches to come with high velocity and frequency at nights?
When we are in beach we can see waves coming when the sun light goes of the waves amplitude will increase what is the reason
Some people said me that for moon light the frequency and velocity of ...
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How to simulate a crashing wave?
I'd like to create a very rough animation of a wave crashing on a beach. I'm guessing it would have to be a particle simulator, where you code in the forces between the particles and then integrate ...
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Why do tsunami waves begin with the water flowing away from shore?
A sign of a tsunami is that the water rushes away from the shore, then comes back to higher levels. It seems that waves should be both + and - polarized and that some tsunamis should go in the ...
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Are water waves (i.e. on the surface of the ocean) longitudinal or transverse?
I'm convinced that water waves for example:
are a combination of longitudinal and transverse. Any references or proofs of this or otherwise?
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Resonance modes of a cubic box of water which we shake
I don't know hydrodynamics, but I wonder how one would compute resonance modes of a cubic box of water which we shake. I believe the waves would directly depend on the height of water and the width ...
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Waves in water always circular
I have had a question since childhood. Why do we always get circular waves (ripples) in water even when we throw irregularly shaped object in it?
