Well put, Graeme!
I, for one, would be very interested in your exposition of that list.
Cheers,
Dirk
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Well put, Graeme!
I need to assume when you say "On a floor say, that wave would be pushing upwards away from the rod tip and allow us to do that." you may away from you and not upwards (i.e. vertically above the floor.)Paul wrote:If we were looking at a transverse wave travelling up the page, I should be able to go from 2 to 1. On a floor say, that wave would be pushing upwards away from the rod tip and allow us to do that. But that doesn’t happen. What actually happens is that the line stays level with the rod tip and ends up in a mess. There is no upwards wave propagation.
Yep, they do push outwards. They stay out there as long as there is tension stopping them coming back at us. When they are small enough, we'd call them wiggle mends. When they are big enough, we'd call them casts.Paul Arden wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 4:31 am If the waves were transverse in the horizontal plane they should push outwards no? That’s why I brought up the floor experiment.
Cheers, Paul