Does Wave Structure Study Include Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

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when we study waves we actually study the composition that a disturbance gives to the medium,the snapshot of the composition is what we call wave structure...does that snapshot ,the localisation of particles, includes Heisenberg uncertainity principle?
 
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when we study waves we actually study the composition that a disturbance gives to the medium,the snapshot of the composition is what we call wave structure...does that snapshot ,the localisation of particles, includes Heisenberg uncertainity principle?

if you are referring to macro-scale waves/disturbances then the answer is that the effect of HUP is so minuscule and "averaged out" that it can be neglected and perhaps immeasurable.
 
and in microscopic scale?
 
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