In physics, a wave packet (also known as a wave train or wave group) is a short burst of localized wave action that travels as a unit, outlined by an...
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Wavelength (redirect from Wave length)
Localized wave packets, "bursts" of wave action where each wave packet travels as a unit, find application in many fields of physics. A wave packet has an...
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Tollmien–Schlichting wave, in fluid dynamics Wind wave Bloch's theorem Matter wave Pilot wave theory, in Bohmian mechanics Wave function Wave packet Wave–particle...
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Free particle (section Spread of the wave packet)
condition for the wave function. The wavefunction is not normalizable for a plane wave, but is for a wave packet. The free particle wave function may be...
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Group velocity (category Wave mechanics)
of waves with a quiescent center appears in the water, also known as a capillary wave. The expanding ring of waves is the wave group or wave packet, within...
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Quantum tunnelling (redirect from Wave-mechanical tunneling)
equation describe their behavior. The probability of transmission of a wave packet through a barrier decreases exponentially with the barrier height, the...
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wave, assuming an initial Gaussian wave packet. Darwin showed that at time t {\displaystyle t} later the position x {\displaystyle x} of the packet traveling...
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rotate the wave packet about the y {\displaystyle y} and x {\displaystyle x} axes, respectively, increase the temporal width of the wave packet (in addition...
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position (with slight uncertainty). The center position of this wave packet changes as the wave propagates, moving through the crystal at the velocity v given...
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particle being where the wave function is large. This was shown to be incompatible with the elastic scattering of a wave packet (representing a particle)...
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Photon (redirect from Energy in a wave)
modelling electromagnetic waves as consisting of spatially localized, discrete wave-packets. He called such a wave-packet a light quantum (German: ein...
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not normalizable quantum states. Instead, we can consider a Gaussian wave packet: ψ ( x , 0 ) = 1 π a 4 e − x 2 2 a {\displaystyle \psi (x,0)={\frac {1}{\sqrt[{4}]{\pi...
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Dispersion relation (section Plane waves in vacuum)
Dispersion occurs when sinusoidal waves of different wavelengths have different propagation velocities, so that a wave packet of mixed wavelengths tends to...
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Apart from a single one, the rogue wave may be part of a wave packet consisting of a few rogue waves. Such rogue wave groups have been observed in nature...
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Copenhagen to the present day". arXiv:quant-ph/0210152. G. Jaeger (2017). ""Wave-Packet Reduction" and the Quantum Character of the Actualization of Potentia"...
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any sort of wave packet implies uncertainty in the wave frequency and wavelength, since a spread of frequencies is needed to create the packet itself. In...
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A Spacetime wave packet is a spatial-temporal light structure with a one-to-one correlation between spatial and temporal frequencies. In particular, their...
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This is a list of wave topics. Contents: Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z...
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A trojan wave packet is a wave packet that is nonstationary and nonspreading. It is part of an artificially created system that consists of a nucleus and...
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Soliton (redirect from Soliton wave)
mathematics and physics, a soliton is a nonlinear, self-reinforcing, localized wave packet that is strongly stable, in that it preserves its shape while propagating...
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speed at which a wave packet travels) is given by c g = d ω d k , {\displaystyle c_{g}={\frac {d\omega }{dk}},} and thus for a gravity wave, c g = 1 2 g k...
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be essentially anywhere along the wave packet. On the other hand, consider a wave function that is a sum of many waves, which we may write as ψ ( x ) ∝...
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depth contours, non-breaking waves will increase in wave height as the wave packet enters shallower water. This is particularly evident for tsunamis as...
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Refraction (redirect from Wave refraction)
emit their own electromagnetic waves which interact with the original light. The resulting "combined" wave has wave packets that pass an observer at a slower...
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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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Waveform (redirect from Wave forms)
offset modulation Spectrum analyzer Waveform monitor Waveform viewer Wave packet "Waveform Definition". techterms.com. Retrieved 2015-12-09. David Crecraft...
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other bosonic quantum field theories. While minimum uncertainty Gaussian wave-packets had been well-known, they did not attract full attention until Roy J...
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light. The phase of a wave packet travels at the phase velocity; since phase is not causal, the phase velocity of a wave packet can be faster than light...
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Landau damping (category Waves)
behavior and excite a wave packet of which the energy agrees with fluid theory. The figure shows the energy density of a wave packet traveling at the group...
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direction of a wave's energy flow, and the direction that a small wave packet will move, i.e. the direction of the group velocity. For light waves in vacuum...
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