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Waves and Types of Waves
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Sir Usman
Submitted by:
Muhammad Usman (08-chem-02-B)Date: 11may, 2009Department of Chemical EngineeringUniversity of Engineering and Technology Lahore
 
Examples:............................................................................................................92.Longitudinal waves:...........................................................................................10Explanation:..........................................................................................................10Example:............................................................................................................103.Surface waves:..................................................................................................10Note:........................................................................................................................131.One dimensional waves:....................................................................................11Example:...............................................................................................................112.Two dimensional waves:....................................................................................11Example:...............................................................................................................11Explanation:.......................................................................................................113.Three dimensional waves:.................................................................................11Example:...............................................................................................................11Wavefronts:.......................................................................................................12Ray:....................................................................................................................121.Plane waves:..................................................................................................122.Spherical waves:.............................................................................................121.Travelling waves/progressive waves:..............................................................132.Standing waves/stationary waves:.................................................................13Explanation:.......................................................................................................13
Summary:
A Wave is a disturbance that travels through a medium from one location toanother location. There lies a close relationship between a wave and a pulse.A
pulse
is a single wave travelling through a medium while if thisdisturbance continues to travel periodically and over a prolonged period of time from one location of medium to the other part of medium then it isreferred as
wave
.A medium is a substance or material which carries the waves.Waves are transmitted through the medium by the interaction of someparticles present in the medium which move and interact with their nextparticle and thus waves are transmitted.Some interacting particles in case of different media are e.g.
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