Timeline for Calculating the mass of a wave of water
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 17:42 | vote | accept | CharlieK | ||
| Apr 17, 2014 at 21:39 | history | edited | Mark Rovetta |
this is about ocean wave physics
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| Apr 17, 2014 at 21:37 | answer | added | Mark Rovetta | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 16, 2014 at 20:26 | comment | added | user6972 | Can you update your question to reflect what you really want to know? | |
| Apr 16, 2014 at 18:45 | answer | added | user6972 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 15, 2014 at 21:22 | comment | added | user6972 | @CharlieK There is a no net momentum in a wave, but a momentum flux. If you are trying to calculate the force of a crashing wave that is something different. Ursell (1950) showed that ocean swell on a rotating Earth has no mass transport. See the link in my comment to Jim's answer for details on the concept. | |
| Apr 15, 2014 at 13:55 | answer | added | Jim | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 15, 2014 at 13:32 | comment | added | Jim | It seems you want to find the force of impact of a wave on something. Or a problem close to that. | |
| Apr 15, 2014 at 11:48 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 14, 2014 at 21:18 | comment | added | CharlieK | @user6972 I am interested in the mass because I want the momentum. I can calculate velocity but I need mass for the momentum, no? | |
| Apr 14, 2014 at 21:17 | comment | added | jinawee | The wave is the oscillation, not the mass. But I think it could be debatable. | |
| Apr 14, 2014 at 21:15 | comment | added | CharlieK | @jinawee how is it possible that a wave of water "have no mass"? | |
| Apr 14, 2014 at 20:23 | comment | added | Shubham | Wouldn't the masses(or volumes) in the crests and troughs cancel each other, as you reason it? But it still does not make sense to find the mass or volume of a wave, beacause we usually study waves for other purposes. | |
| Apr 14, 2014 at 17:37 | comment | added | user6972 | A wave transports momentum and energy without transferring mass. Here's a tutorial on ocean waves: surflibrary.org/wavephysics.pdf | |
| Apr 14, 2014 at 13:03 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | You need to define the volume which makes up your wave. Once you've done that all you need to do is calculate the integral. Since waves are more or less a surface phenomenon, at the very least you need to define how much of the water between the surface and the ocean floor is "contained" in the wave. | |
| Apr 14, 2014 at 9:44 | comment | added | jinawee | What do you mean by weight of a wave. I would say that waves have no mass. | |
| Apr 14, 2014 at 8:32 | history | asked | CharlieK | CC BY-SA 3.0 |