Waves
Created | Updated Aug 12, 2003
Waves.
Waves are an energy transportation.
Wave values tend to swing round a default or average level.
Waves are not a flow of the medium in the travel direction.
Waves tend to go in all directions unless the energy is reflected by a boundary or dampened by a border.
I should be possible to deduce waves in the water formed by a ship on the other side of the atlantic. It should also be possible to know the weight and speed of respective ship. The only problem resides in your gathering of information. The above example would require numerous wave recording sensors along the continental plates.
The other way around is that it can ( and so will ) happen to all the waves produced by bading tourists eventually add up to one gigantic flood wave on the other side of the ocean.
The wavelength of a ship determines the speed it will reach. You can go faster, but the energy required is much bigger then up until this speed.
Waves are an energy transportation.
Wave values tend to swing round a default or average level.
Waves are not a flow of the medium in the travel direction.
Waves tend to go in all directions unless the energy is reflected by a boundary or dampened by a border.
I should be possible to deduce waves in the water formed by a ship on the other side of the atlantic. It should also be possible to know the weight and speed of respective ship. The only problem resides in your gathering of information. The above example would require numerous wave recording sensors along the continental plates.
The other way around is that it can ( and so will ) happen to all the waves produced by bading tourists eventually add up to one gigantic flood wave on the other side of the ocean.
The wavelength of a ship determines the speed it will reach. You can go faster, but the energy required is much bigger then up until this speed.
