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

This is EXACTLY what I was trying to say!!!

Richard G. Smith

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Subject: 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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