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It may not answer your question directly, but the following is a nice write-up: http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/waves/wavemotion.html http://www.acs.psu.e
by dj-wonk 12y ago
It may not answer your question directly, but the following is a nice write-up: http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/waves/wavemotion.html http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/waves/wavemotion.html
"Water waves are an example of waves that involve a combination of both longitudinal and transverse motions. As a wave travels through the waver, the particles travel in clockwise circles. The radius of the circles decreases as the depth into the water increases."
The animation is mesmerizing.
- ovis 12y agoHere's another visualization, which let's you play with the wave parameters. http://web.mit.edu/~njwilson/www/waves.html http://web.mit.edu/~njwilson/www/waves.html
- t0ss3r 12y agoGood visualization of what any aware surfer/bodyboarder/bodysurfer/etc. has likely noticed.
- rcthompson 12y agoThat's a cool animation, and I've seen it before, but I'm talking about the waves spreading out in the 3rd dimension, horizontally along the length of the wave (i.e. perpendicular to the screen in that animation).
- ovis 12y agoYou mean like ripples in a pond? Yes, that does happen for both deep and shallow water waves. And yes, the wave power would be expected to spread laterally, causing the amplitudes observed at a point to be smaller further from the source. Here's a model visualization of the tsunami set off by the 2004 Sumatran earthquake. http://youtu.be/46ovp1rZeL4 http://youtu.be/46ovp1rZeL4