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Balls, boxes and solitary waves
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2016
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Water waves are familiar to all of us and we encounter them in a variety of guises in many places, be it crashing to shore at the beach, rippling concentrically outward where a pebble lands in a pond or simply splashing at the sides of the bath. The study of waves can be simplified by idealising them as graphs, each graph being thought of as a cross-section of a physical wave at an instant in time. A sequence of such graphs can represent the progress of the wave as time passes.
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