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- https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/University_Physics_I_-_Classical_Mechanics_(Gea-Banacloche)/12%3A_Waves_in_One_Dimension/12.01%3A_Traveling_WavesIf we think of the momentum of a volume element in the medium as being proportional to the product of the instantaneous density and velocity, we see that for this wave, which is traveling in the posit...If we think of the momentum of a volume element in the medium as being proportional to the product of the instantaneous density and velocity, we see that for this wave, which is traveling in the positive \(x\) direction, there is more “positive momentum” than “negative momentum” in the medium at any given time (of course, if the wave had been traveling in the opposite direction, the sign of \(v_{med}\) in Equation (\ref{eq:12.6}) would have been negative, and we would have found the opposite re…
- https://phys.libretexts.org/Courses/Merrimack_College/Conservation_Laws_Newton's_Laws_and_Kinematics_version_2.0/24%3A_Waves_in_One_Dimension/24.01%3A_Traveling_WavesIf we think of the momentum of a volume element in the medium as being proportional to the product of the instantaneous density and velocity, we see that for this wave, which is traveling in the posit...If we think of the momentum of a volume element in the medium as being proportional to the product of the instantaneous density and velocity, we see that for this wave, which is traveling in the positive \(x\) direction, there is more “positive momentum” than “negative momentum” in the medium at any given time (of course, if the wave had been traveling in the opposite direction, the sign of \(v_{med}\) in Equation (\ref{eq:12.6}) would have been negative, and we would have found the opposite re…
- https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/Book%3A_Introductory_Physics_-_Building_Models_to_Describe_Our_World_(Martin_Neary_Rinaldo_and_Woodman)/14%3A_Waves/14.01%3A_Characteristics_of_a_waveA traveling wave is a disturbance that travels through a medium.
- https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Waves_and_Acoustics/The_Physics_of_Waves_(Goergi)/08%3A_Traveling_Waves/8.01%3A_Standing_and_Traveling_WavesSo far, we have considered standing wave solutions in which the space and time dependent factors are separately real, i.e. \[\sin k x \cdot \cos \omega t \propto\left(e^{i k x}-e^{-i k x}\right) \cdot...So far, we have considered standing wave solutions in which the space and time dependent factors are separately real, i.e. \[\sin k x \cdot \cos \omega t \propto\left(e^{i k x}-e^{-i k x}\right) \cdot\left(e^{i \omega t}+e^{-i \omega t}\right) .\] But we can put the same solutions together in a different way, \[\psi(x, t)=\cos (k x-\omega t) \propto\left(e^{i k x} e^{-i \omega t}+e^{-i k x} e^{i \omega t}\right) .\]
- https://phys.libretexts.org/Courses/Berea_College/Introductory_Physics%3A_Berea_College/14%3A_Waves/14.01%3A_Characteristics_of_a_waveA traveling wave is a disturbance that travels through a medium.
