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Article #2448Property of waves
From: Kam-Yuen Kwong
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 10:54
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 10:54
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Greeting: Probably somebody would like to enlighten me about this: 'Does the character, "longitudinal" or "transversal", of a wave come from empirical observations or the analytical property of the wave equation and its constraints'? In other words, can we tell a wave longitudinal or transversal by just looking into its wave equation? At least, in the EM wave, analytically, we know the vector of E and B is transversal to the Poynting (energy flow) vector. How about others like string wave, water wave, acoustic wave etc.? Thanks for any comment or explanation, posted or e-mailed. Hsiu-Ming Chang (Would like to thank Mr. Kwong allowing me using his address) kam@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (c/o Hsiu-Ming Chang)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!gumby!destroyer!ncar!noao!amethyst!organpipe.uug.arizona.edu!news From: kam@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (Kam-Yuen Kwong) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Property of waves Message-ID: <1992Aug17.105438.13053@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> Date: 17 Aug 92 10:54:38 GMT Sender: news@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu Organization: University of Arizona - Physics Lines: 22