Waves

What “Waves” begins with

CHAPTER FOURTEEN WAVES 14.1 INTRODUCTION In the previous Chapter, we studied the motion of objects oscillating in isolation. What happens in a system, which is a collection of such objects? Here, elastic forces bind the constituents to each other and, therefore, the motion of one affects that of the other. If you drop a little pebble in a pond of still water, the water surface gets disturbed.