Index of wave articles
This is a list of wave topics.
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A
- Abbe prism
- Absorption spectroscopy
- absorption spectrum
- Absorption wavemeter
- acoustics
- Acoustic wave
- Acoustic wave equation
- Acousto-optic effect
- Acousto-optic modulator
- Acousto-optics
- Airy disc
- Airy wave theory
- Alfvén wave
- Alpha waves
- Amphidromic point
- Amplitude
- Amplitude modulation
- Analog sound vs. digital sound
- Animal echolocation
- Antarctic Circumpolar Wave
- Antiphase
- Apache Wave
- Aquamarine Power
- Arrayed waveguide grating
- Artificial wave
- Atmospheric diffraction
- Atmospheric wave
- Atmospheric waveguide
- Atomic clock
- Atomic mirror
- Atom laser
- Audience wave
- Autowave
B
- Babinet's principle
- Backward wave oscillator
- Bandwidth-limited pulse
- beat
- Berry phase
- Bessel beam
- beta wave
- black hole
- blazar
- Bloch wave
- Blueshift
- Boussinesq approximation (water waves)
- bow wave
- Bragg diffraction
- Bragg's law
- Breaking wave
- Bremsstrahlung, electromagnetic radiation
- Brillouin scattering
- Bullet bow shockwave
- Burgers' equation
- Business cycle
C
- capillary wave
- carrier wave
- Cherenkov radiation
- Ernst Chladni
- chirp
- circular polarization
- clapotis
- closed waveguide
- cnoidal wave
- coherence (physics)
- coherence length
- coherence time
- Cold wave
- collimated light
- Collimator
- Compton effect
- computation of radiowave attenuation in the atmosphere
- continuous phase modulation
- continuous wave
- Convective heat transfer
- Coriolis frequency
- coronal mass ejection
- Cosmic microwave background radiation
- Coulomb wave function
- Cutoff frequency
- cutoff wavelength
- cymatics
D
- Damped wave
- decollimation
- delta wave
- dielectric waveguide
- diffraction
- direction finding
- dispersion (optics)
- dispersion (water waves)
- dispersion relation
- dominant wavelength
- Doppler effect
- Doppler radar
- Draupner wave
- Duhamel's principle
- Douglas Sea Scale
E
- e-skip
- Earthquake
- echo (phenomenon)
- echolocation (animal)
- echolocation (human)
- echo sounding
- Eddy (fluid dynamics)
- edge wave
- eikonal equation
- Ekman layer
- Ekman spiral
- Ekman transport
- Electromagnetic electron wave
- electromagnetic radiation
- electromagnetic wave
- electromagnetic wave cut-off
- electron
- Elliott wave
- elliptical polarization
- El Niño-Southern Oscillation
- Electroencephalography
- emission spectrum
- Equatorial Rossby wave
- Equatorial waves
- essential bandwidth
- evanescent wave
- Extratropical cyclone
- extremely low frequency
F
- F wave
- Fabry–Pérot interferometer
- Faraday wave
- Fetch (geography)
- Fourier series
- Fraunhofer diffraction
- Fraunhofer distance
- freak wave
- frequency
- frequency modulation
- Fresnel–Arago laws
- Fresnel diffraction
- Fresnel equations
- Fresnel integral
- Fresnel lens
- Fresnel number
- Fresnel rhomb
- Fresnel zone
- fundamental frequency
G
- gamma ray
- gamma ray burst
- Gamma wave
- Gaussian beam
- geometric optics, geometrical optics
- Geostrophic current
- gravitational radiation
- gravity wave
- groundwave
- group delay
- group velocity
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H
- harmonic
- holography
- heat wave
- human echolocation
- hundred-year wave
- hurricane
- Huygens' principle
- hydraulic jump
- Hydrography
- Hydropower
- Hyperbolic partial differential equation
I
- in phase
- infragravity wave
- Inhomogeneous electromagnetic wave equation
- Interference (wave propagation)
- inertial wave
- Infrared gas analyzer
- interferometry
- internal wave
- inverse scattering transform
- Ion acoustic wave
- Irradiance
K
L
- Lamb waves
- Landau damping
- Lee wave
- linear elasticity
- linear polarization
- list of waves named after people
- longitudinal mode
- longitudinal wave
- longwave
- Long wavelength limit
- Love wave
M
- Mach wave
- Mach–Zehnder interferometer
- Maelstrom
- Magnetometer
- Magnetosonic wave
- matter wave
- Maxwell's equations
- Mayer waves
- Mechanical wave
- Medical ultrasonography
- mediumwave
- megatsunami
- microbarom
- microwave
- microwave auditory effect
- microwave oven
- microwave plasma
- microwaving
- Mie scattering
- millimeter cloud radar
- modulation
- Monochromatic electromagnetic plane wave
- monochromator
- Moonlight
- Morning Glory cloud
- multipath propagation
- mu wave
N
- Neural oscillation
- Nondispersive infrared sensor
- nonlinear Schrödinger equation
- nonlinear wave
- nonlinear X-wave
- normal mode
- neutron
O
- ocean surface wave
- oscillon
- Optical fiber
- optical waveguide
- Outgoing longwave radiation
- out of phase
- overtone
- Oyster wave energy converter
P
- P-wave
- parabolic reflector
- Periodic function
- phase (waves)
- phase difference
- phase inversion
- phase modulation
- phase velocity
- phonon
- photon
- pitch shifter (audio processor)
- Planck constant
- Planck's law
- plane wave
- polarization (waves)
- Ponto-geniculo-occipital waves, PGO waves
- power standing wave ratio
- pp-wave spacetime
- pressure wave
- Prism
- proton
- pulsar
- Pulsar wind nebula
- pulse-density modulation
- Pulse wave velocity
Q
- QT interval
- quadrature
- quadrature amplitude modulation
- quantum optics
- quantum tunneling
- Quantum Zeno effect
R
- radar
- radar astronomy
- radar cross section
- radar gun
- radio propagation
- radio waves
- Radiosity (heat transfer)
- Rayleigh scattering
- Rayleigh wave
- Rayleigh–Jeans law
- redshift
- reflection coefficient
- reflection seismology
- refraction
- relativistic Doppler effect
- resonance
- Resonator
- Ring laser gyroscope
- ring modulation
- ring wave guide
- rip current
- ripple
- ripple tank
- rogue wave (oceanography)
- Rossby-gravity waves
- Rossby wave
- Rydberg constant
- Rydberg formula
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S
- S-wave
- sample (signal)
- sawtooth wave
- Schrödinger equation
- sea state
- seiche
- seismic wave
- seismograph
- seismology
- Sellmeier equation
- shallow water equations
- Shive wave machine
- shock wave
- shortwave
- Signal velocity
- significant wave height
- sine wave
- single-sideband modulation
- Sinusoidal plane-wave solutions of the electromagnetic wave equation
- skywave
- Slow-wave potential
- Slow-wave sleep
- Slow-wave threshold
- Sneaker wave
- solitary wave
- soliton
- sonar
- Sonic anemometers
- sound wave
- Spark-gap transmitter
- Spectroscopy
- Speed of gravity
- Speed of light
- speed of sound
- Spike-and-wave
- spin wave
- square wave
- standing wave
- standing wave ratio
- Stefan–Boltzmann law
- Stokes drift
- Stokes wave
- subharmonic
- superharmonic
- super low frequency
- Superposition principle
- Supersonic Wave Filter
- surface acoustic wave
- Surface wave
- Surface wave inversion
- Surface wave magnitude
- surface-wave-sustained mode
- surfing
- Sverdrup wave
- swell (ocean)
- synthetic aperture radar
T
- Terrestrial gamma-ray flash
- Terrestrial stationary waves
- theta wave
- tidal bore
- tidal power
- tidal resonance
- tide
- tired light theory
- transverse mode
- transverse wave
- Traveling wave antenna
- Traveling wave reactor
- traveling-wave tube
- triangle wave
- trigonometric function
- Trojan wave packet
- Tropical wave
- tsunami
- Turbidity current
- T wave
U
- ultra low frequency
- ultrasonic sound waves
- ultrasound
- ultraviolet catastrophe
- Sneaker wave
- Undertow (wave action)
- undular bore
- underwater wave
V
W
- wake
- Waterspout
- wave base
- Wave disk engine
- wave drag
- wave equation
- Wave farm
- Wave field synthesis
- Wave function
- Wave function collapse
- Wave height
- wave impedance
- Wave loading
- wavelength
- Wave making resistance
- Wave motor
- Wave packet
- wave period
- Wave plate
- Wave pool
- Wave pounding
- wave power
- Wave propagation
- Wave propagation speed
- Wave shoaling
- Wave surface
- Wave tank
- Wave turbulence
- wave vector
- Wave velocity
- Wave–current interaction
- Wave-cut platform
- Wave form
- wave-formed ripple
- waveform monitor
- Wavefront
- wavefunction
- wavefunction collapse
- waveguide
- Waveguide (acoustics)
- Waveguide (electromagnetism)
- Waveguide (optics)
- Waveguide flange
- wavelength-division multiplexing
- Wavelength selective switching
- Wavelet
- Wavelet transform
- wavenumber
- wavenumber-frequency diagram
- Wave–current interaction
- wave–particle duality
- waverider
- waves and shallow water
- waves in plasmas
- Wien approximation
- Wien's displacement law
- Wien's law
- Windsurfing
- Wind wave