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wavelength
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Contents
Context
Harmonic analysis
Contents
Idea
The distance between two crests? of a wave.
Definition
For and
a plane wave with wave vector , then its wavelength is the inverse of the norm of :
The quotient is the direction of the plane wave.
The product is also called the wave number.
plane waves on Minkowski spacetime
Examples
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