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Plane waves


In the physics of wave propagation, a plane wave (also spelled planewave) is a wave whose wavefronts (surfaces of constant phase) are infinite parallel planes. Mathematically a plane wave takes the form

in which the arbitrary (scalar or vector) function gives the variation of the wave's amplitude, and the fixed unit vector is the wave's direction of propagation. The solutions in of


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