Re: [Paddlewise] Wave Speed - (totally trivial question!)

Richard wrote;

> They don't travel.  It's an up and down rotating motion.  A molecule of
> water is not displaced horizontally to any great extent.

Waves do experience translational motion or "travel" as it were.  The water.
however, moves in what we call general motion (i.e. translational and
rotational) even though the translational aspect may not amount to much.

The rather neat thing about waves it that they do travel for if they didn't,
I would not hear my wife announcing that coffee and pie is ready and I have
to stop mucking about on the Internet.

Cheers,

John Winters
Redwing Designs
Web site address, http://home.ican.net/~735769





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