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You need the medium, gravity, and 'push' to get a wave. Calling them <medium>-wave, or 'push'-wave doesn't really tell you anything useful, so they're called gr
by contravariant 10y ago
You need the medium, gravity, and 'push' to get a wave. Calling them <medium>-wave, or 'push'-wave doesn't really tell you anything useful, so they're called gravity-waves. An alternative would have been buoyancy-wave, but apparently this didn't catch on (buoyancy and gravity are really two sides of the same coin, anyway).
- Godel_unicode 10y agoBuoyancy is related to density, which is independent of gravity. Check: buoyancy can exist in a non-inertial reference frame provided acceleration in a "downward" direction. Also, you don't need gravity to be the force being acted against in order to form a wave. You can get impact waves in water at 0g because of surface tension. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buoyancy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buoyancy
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