In my Physics I class, we started learning about wave functions in the form:
y(x,t) = sin(kx ± ωt ± ∅) or y(x,t) = cos(kx ± ωt ± ∅)
1) I saw a question where the wave function was structured as:
y(x,t) = sin(ωt - kx + ∅)
and the answers for the direction of the wave was in the +x...