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Homework Statement
Hello, I've recently started learning about waves, and there are a few stuff I don't understand (I'm talking about transverse waves):1. What function describes the movement of a single "element" on the string? I mean an element in which only its y changes, but x remains constant. Its graph would be abstract, correct? What describes it?
2. What function describes the wave itself?I read that y(x,t)=h(kx-wt) describes ANY wave, where h is ANY function, is this correct? Isn't it missing Ymax?
So y(x,t)=Sin(kx-wt) is a wave function?
So is y(x,t)=x^2(kx-wt)?
So is y(x,t)=ln(kx-wt)?
2. The speed of a wave along a stretched ideal string depends only on the tension and linear density of the string and not on the frequency of the wave.
How can this be true if V= λ*ƒ?
Thank you.
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