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Motion of Waves
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Mechanical waves
2.1 Transverse waves
2.2 Longitudinal waves
2.3 Differences between transverse and longitudinal waves
3.0 Properties of wave motion
3.1 General equation of wave motion
3.2 Wave function
3.3 Equation of a plane progressive harmonic wave
3.4 Important relations
4.0 Speed of a transverse wave on a string
5.0 Energy associated with a wave
6.0 Questions
3.2 Wave function
The functions of $x$ and $t$ represents a wave motion if they satisfy the following differential equation. $$\frac{{{\partial ^2}y}}{{\partial {t^2}}} = {v^2}\frac{{{\partial ^2}y}}{{d{x^2}}}$$2.2 Longitudinal waves
2.3 Differences between transverse and longitudinal waves
3.2 Wave function
3.3 Equation of a plane progressive harmonic wave
3.4 Important relations