Tag: wave profile

  • Waves

    Waves

    Optics Series Lecture, Lecture – XII and – XIII “Traveling waves, Differential wave equations, Particle and wave velocities.” In one of our earlier optics session lecture I had hinted at having waves defined by their pulse shape called as wave profile — or alternatively wave shape or wave form, and transcribing them into forms that…

  • Spherical harmonic waves

    Spherical harmonic waves

    In our lecture — VIII, we worked out the form of plane harmonic traveling waves. Note that soon we will have to a. address the concept of wave profile and b. how to convert a wave profile into its corresponding time-dependent or traveling form. But before we do that here is yet another general form of…