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1Wave equation — Not to be confused with Wave function. The wave equation is an important second order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves – as they occur in physics – such as sound waves, light waves and water waves. It arises in… …
2Electromagnetic wave equation — The electromagnetic wave equation is a second order partial differential equation that describes the propagation of electromagnetic waves through a medium or in a vacuum. The homogeneous form of the equation, written in terms of either the… …
3Acoustic wave equation — In physics, the acoustic wave equation governs the propagation of acoustic waves through a material medium. The form of the equation is a second order partial differential equation. The equation describes the evolution of acoustic pressure p or… …
4Sinusoidal plane-wave solutions of the electromagnetic wave equation — Sinusoidal plane wave solutions are particular solutions to the electromagnetic wave equation.The general solution of the electromagnetic wave equation in homogeneous, linear, time independent media can be written as a linear superposition of… …
5Inhomogeneous electromagnetic wave equation — Localized time varying charge and current densities can act as sources of electromagnetic waves in a vacuum. Maxwell s equations can be written in the form of a inhomogeneous electromagnetic wave equation (or often nonhomogeneous electromagnetic… …
6Wave function — Not to be confused with the related concept of the Wave equation Some trajectories of a harmonic oscillator (a ball attached to a spring) in classical mechanics (A B) and quantum mechanics (C H). In quantum mechanics (C H), the ball has a wave… …
7Wave function collapse — Quantum mechanics Uncertainty principle …
8Vector Laplacian — In mathematics and physics, the vector Laplace operator, denoted by scriptstyle abla^2, named after Pierre Simon Laplace, is a differential operator defined over a vector field. The vector Laplacian is similar to the scalar Laplacian. Whereas the …
9Vector soliton — Among all the soliton considered, the optical soliton draws the most attention as it is possible to generate ultrafast pulses and has wider application. optical soliton can be classified as two groups:temporal soliton and spatial soliton.however …
10Wave vector — A wave vector is a vector representation of a wave. The wave vector has magnitude indicating wavenumber (reciprocal of wavelength), and the direction of the vector indicates the direction of wave propagation.The wave vector is most useful for… …
