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  2. Standing wave - Wikipedia

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    With standing waves on two-dimensional membranes such as drumheads, ... One use for standing light waves is to measure small distances, using optical flats.

  3. Wave equation - Wikipedia

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    French scientist Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert discovered the wave equation in one space dimension. [1] The wave equation in one spatial dimension can be written as follows: =. This equation is typically described as having only one spatial dimension x, because the only other independent variable is the time t.

  4. Wave function - Wikipedia

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    For one spin particle in one dimension, to a particular state there corresponds two wave functions, Ψ(x, S z) and Ψ(p, S y), both describing the same state. For each choice of maximal commuting sets of observables for the abstract state space, there is a corresponding representation that is associated to a function space of wave functions.

  5. Wave - Wikipedia

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    One-dimensional standing waves; the fundamental mode and the first 5 overtones A two-dimensional standing wave on a disk ; this is the fundamental mode. A standing wave on a disk with two nodal lines crossing at the center; this is an overtone.

  6. Acoustic wave equation - Wikipedia

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    The wave equation describing a standing wave field in one dimension (position ) is p x x − 1 c 2 p t t = 0 , {\displaystyle p_{xx}-{\frac {1}{c^{2}}}p_{tt}=0,} where p {\displaystyle p} is the acoustic pressure (the local deviation from the ambient pressure) and c {\displaystyle c} the speed of sound , using subscript notation for the partial ...

  7. One-way wave equation - Wikipedia

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    A one-way wave equation is a first-order partial differential equation describing one wave traveling in a direction defined by the vector wave velocity. It contrasts with the second-order two-way wave equation describing a standing wavefield resulting from superposition of two waves in opposite directions (using the squared scalar wave velocity).

  8. Node (physics) - Wikipedia

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    This is indicated by a finite standing wave ratio (SWR), the ratio of the amplitude of the wave at the antinode to the amplitude at the node. In resonance of a two dimensional surface or membrane, such as a drumhead or vibrating metal plate, the nodes become nodal lines, lines on the surface where the surface is motionless, dividing the surface ...

  9. List of equations in wave theory - Wikipedia

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    1-dimensional corollaries for two sinusoidal waves The following may be deduced by applying the principle of superposition to two sinusoidal waves, using trigonometric identities. The angle addition and sum-to-product trigonometric formulae are useful; in more advanced work complex numbers and fourier series and transforms are used.