• In physics, a sinusoidal plane wave is a special case of plane wave: a field whose value varies as a sinusoidal function of time and of the distance from...
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    A sine wave, sinusoidal wave, or sinusoid (symbol: ∿) is a periodic wave whose waveform (shape) is the trigonometric sine function. In mechanics, as a...
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  • a "monochromatic" or sinusoidal plane wave: a travelling plane wave whose profile G ( u ) {\displaystyle G(u)} is a sinusoidal function. That is, F (...
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  • Sinusoidal plane-wave solutions are particular solutions to the wave equation. The general solution of the electromagnetic wave equation in homogeneous...
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    specific direction of travel. Mathematically, the simplest wave is a sinusoidal plane wave in which at any point the field experiences simple harmonic...
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    Wavefront (redirect from Wave front)
    a sinusoidal plane wave, the wavefronts are planes perpendicular to the direction of propagation, that move in that direction together with the wave. For...
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  • as the wave travels) the radiation is said to be vertically polarized. The classical sinusoidal plane wave solution of the electromagnetic wave equation...
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    Mathematically, the simplest kind of transverse wave is a plane linearly polarized sinusoidal one. "Plane" here means that the direction of propagation...
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    points. The wave F {\displaystyle F} may be a scalar or vector field; its values are the values of G {\displaystyle G} . A sinusoidal plane wave is a special...
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    reaction Health effects of sunlight exposure Sinusoidal plane-wave solutions of the electromagnetic wave equation * Purcell and Morin, Harvard University...
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  • Photon polarization (category Polarization (waves))
    quantum mechanical description of the classical polarized sinusoidal plane electromagnetic wave. An individual photon can be described as having right or...
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    Wavenumber (redirect from Wave number)
    exponentially decaying evanescent fields. The propagation factor of a sinusoidal plane wave propagating in the positive x direction in a linear material is...
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    the human visual system. Its impulse response is defined by a sinusoidal wave (a plane wave for 2D Gabor filters) multiplied by a Gaussian function. Because...
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  • Elliptical polarization (category Polarization (waves))
    electromagnetic nature of light waves was known. The classical sinusoidal plane wave solution of the electromagnetic wave equation for the electric and...
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  • Electromagnetic wave equation ISO 31-5 Mathematical descriptions of the electromagnetic field Relative permittivity Sinusoidal plane-wave solutions of the...
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    material's shear strain. Its solutions, the S waves, are linear combinations of sinusoidal plane waves of various wavelengths and directions of propagation...
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    (two-way) wave equation can be quite complicated. Still, it can be analyzed as a linear combination of simple solutions that are sinusoidal plane waves with...
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    Circular polarization (category Polarization (waves))
    or unpolarized light, is zero. The classical sinusoidal plane wave solution of the electromagnetic wave equation for the electric and magnetic fields...
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    to each other and to the direction of wave propagation, and are in phase with each other. A sinusoidal plane wave is one special solution of these equations...
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  • wavefunction. These electron waves are not ordinary sinusoidal waves, but they do have a kind of envelope function which is sinusoidal, and the wavevector is...
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    Reciprocal space comes into play regarding waves, both classical and quantum mechanical. Because a sinusoidal plane wave with unit amplitude can be written as...
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    Wavelength (redirect from Wave length)
    envelope of modulated waves or waves formed by interference of several sinusoids. Assuming a sinusoidal wave moving at a fixed wave speed, wavelength is inversely...
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    the wave  e i 2 π ξ x {\displaystyle e^{i2\pi \xi x}} (the former, with its minus sign, is often seen in the time dependence for sinusoidal plane-wave solutions...
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  • the wave vector (in radians per meter). Although the function g can be and often is a monochromatic sine wave, it does not have to be sinusoidal, or even...
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  • relativity, the monochromatic electromagnetic plane wave spacetime is the analog of the monochromatic plane waves known from Maxwell's theory. The precise...
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    completes a full period. This convention is especially appropriate for a sinusoidal function, since its value at any argument t {\displaystyle t} then can...
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  • wave equation Mathematical descriptions of the electromagnetic field New SI definitions Sinusoidal plane-wave solutions of the electromagnetic wave equation...
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    Sound (redirect from Sound wave)
    of various sound wave frequencies (and noise). Sound waves are often simplified to a description in terms of sinusoidal plane waves, which are characterized...
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    of the actual value of 73 Ω produced by a half-wave dipole, when more correct quarter-wave sinusoidal currents are used. The fundamental resonance of...
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  • Helmholtz equation (category Waves)
    where u represents the complex-valued amplitude which modulates the sinusoidal plane wave represented by the exponential factor. Then under a suitable assumption...
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