Wave packet
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title:
Wave packet
text:
In physics, a wave packet is a short burst of localized wave action that travels as a unit, outlined by an envelope. A wave packet can be analyzed into, or can be synthesized from, a potentially-infinite set of component sinusoidal waves of different wavenumbers, with phases and amplitudes such that they interfere constructively only over a small region of space, and destructively elsewhere. Any signal of a limited width in time or space requires many frequency components around a center frequen
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description:
Short "burst" or "envelope" of restricted wave action that travels as a unit
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_packet
date created:
2004-02-03T04:20:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T08:25:07Z
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