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    The wave equation is a second-order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves or standing wave fields such as mechanical waves (e...
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  • The Schrödinger equation is a partial differential equation that governs the wave function of a non-relativistic quantum-mechanical system.: 1–2  Its...
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  • electromagnetic wave equation is a second-order partial differential equation that describes the propagation of electromagnetic waves through a medium...
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  • physics, the acoustic wave equation is a second-order partial differential equation that governs the propagation of acoustic waves through a material medium...
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    mechanics (RQM) and its applications to particle physics, relativistic wave equations predict the behavior of particles at high energies and velocities comparable...
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    Rogue wave Scattering Shallow water equations Shive wave machine Sound Standing wave Transmission medium Velocity factor Wave equation Wave power Wave turbulence...
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    speed of EM waves predicted by the wave equation coincided with the measured speed of light, Maxwell concluded that light itself is an EM wave. Maxwell's...
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  • the wave equation, the diffusion equation, and the Schrödinger equation for a free particle. In optics, the Helmholtz equation is the wave equation for...
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    Schrödinger equation determines how wave functions evolve over time, and a wave function behaves qualitatively like other waves, such as water waves or waves on...
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  • Klein–Gordon equation (Klein–Fock–Gordon equation or sometimes Klein–Gordon–Fock equation) is a relativistic wave equation, related to the Schrödinger equation. It...
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  • one-dimensional wave equation, and within ten years Euler discovered the three-dimensional wave equation. The Euler–Lagrange equation was developed in...
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  • In particle physics, the Dirac equation is a relativistic wave equation derived by British physicist Paul Dirac in 1928. In its free form, or including...
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    areas involving elastic waves, S waves, secondary waves, or shear waves (sometimes called elastic S waves) are a type of elastic wave and are one of the two...
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    Burgers' equation or Bateman–Burgers equation is a fundamental partial differential equation and convection–diffusion equation occurring in various areas...
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  • of substantial contemporary interest. The model hyperbolic equation is the wave equation. In one spatial dimension, this is ∂ 2 u ∂ t 2 = c 2 ∂ 2 u ∂...
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    component wave function, and hence the wave packet, are solutions of a wave equation. Depending on the wave equation, the wave packet's profile may remain constant...
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  • This article summarizes equations in the theory of waves. A wave can be longitudinal where the oscillations are parallel (or antiparallel) to the propagation...
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  • 1926, Schrödinger published the wave equation that now bears his name – the matter wave analogue of Maxwell's equations – and used it to derive the energy...
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    Saint-Venant equations (aka Dynamic wave equation), we get the also classical Diffusive wave equation and Kinematic wave equation. For the diffusive wave it is...
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    wave equation, or nonhomogeneous electromagnetic wave equation, is one of a set of wave equations describing the propagation of electromagnetic waves...
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    In fluid dynamics, a cnoidal wave is a nonlinear and exact periodic wave solution of the Korteweg–de Vries equation. These solutions are in terms of the...
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  • alternatives. Significantly, the combined wave function of the system and environment continue to obey the Schrödinger equation throughout this apparent collapse...
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    are called the "momentum equations" instead. Equations of wave motion are called wave equations. The solutions to a wave equation give the time-evolution...
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    the equation appears in the studies of small-amplitude gravity waves on the surface of deep inviscid (zero-viscosity) water; the Langmuir waves in hot...
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  • thermodynamic equations List of equations in wave theory List of electromagnetism equations List of relativistic equations List of equations in fluid mechanics...
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  • to model the wave propagation in marine sediments using fractional derivatives. The fractional Schrödinger equation, a fundamental equation of fractional...
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  • In mathematical physics, the wave maps equation is a geometric wave equation that solves D α ∂ α u = 0 {\displaystyle D^{\alpha }\partial _{\alpha }u=0}...
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  • mechanics. The Hamilton–Jacobi equation is a formulation of mechanics in which the motion of a particle can be represented as a wave. In this sense, it fulfilled...
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    considered the value of a wave along a wire. In two or three spatial dimensions, the same equation describes a travelling plane wave if position x {\displaystyle...
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  • such a state of matter. The acoustic wave equation describes the propagation of sound waves. The acoustic wave equation for sound pressure in one dimension...
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