CoachA traveling perturbation — a sound’s compression pattern, the ripple on a pond, a radio pulse — is a wave. The medium, when there is one, stays put: each patch of water bobs in place while the ripple crosses the pond. The geometry of waves — wavelength, interference, diffraction — is taken up in a later chapter; this chapter only needs their speeds.
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