Sinusoidal Plane Waves PHYSICS 1 In complex notation Somnath Bharadwaj and Pratik Khastgir, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur, 721 302 India http://www.cts.iitkgp.ernet.in/~phy1/
What is ? Sound waves in air
What is ? Vibrations of a stretched string
Amplitude and Phase Amplitude Phase
Angular frequency Fix Position
Wave number Fix Time
Summary
Phase velocity Follow
Phase velocity
Wave Evolution
Three Dimensions Constant phase surfaces
Wave Fronts
Arbitrary direction Wave vector Along x
Phase difference
Problem