The Nature of Waves
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Resources
- General
- Longitudinal and Transverse Wave Motion. Dan Russell. Kettering University. Animations of wave types.
- Traffic waves
- Time Space Diagrams for Thirteen Shock Waves. Ben Coifman. Ohio State University/University of California Berkeley.
- Kinematics of Driving: Some "Real" Traffic Considerations. DC Tech.
- Stop-and-Go Science. Peter Weiss. Science News. Vol. 156 No. 1 (1999).
- Traffic Waves. William Beaty. Science Hobbyist (1998).
- Ocean waves
- Seabased Energy AB. Using oceanwaves to generate electricity.
- Seismic waves
- Oklahoma Geological Survey Nuclear Explosion Catalog [pdf]. James E. Lawson Jr. Last modified 9 October 2006.
- Tsunami Website. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
- Stadium wave
- Mexican waves in an excitable medium. I. Farkas, D. Helbing, T. Vicsek. Nature. Vol. 419 (2002): 131–132.
- Video on demand
- The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (1985)
- Waves. With an analysis of simple harmonic motion and a stroke of genius, Newton extended mechanics to the propagation of sound.
- YouTube
- Gravity Waves. akrherz. Atmospheric phenomena.
- Time Warp - Baseball Bat. Discovery Channel.
- The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (1985)