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Chapter16: Waves

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Problem 55P: A swimmer in the ocean observes one day that the ocean surface waves are periodic and resemble a...

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What happens when two waves, such as waves on a lake,
come from different directions and run into each other?
(a) They cancel each other out and disappear.
(b) If they are the same size, they cancel each other out
and disappear. If one wave is larger than the other, the
smaller one disappears and the larger one shrinks but
continues.
(c) They get larger where they run into each other; then
they continue in a direction between the direction of
the two original waves and larger than either original
wave.
(d) They may have various patterns where they overlap,
but each wave continues with its original pattern away
from the region of overlap.
(e) Waves cannot run into each other; they always come
from the same direction and so are parallel

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