Small Soft Waves

The sea is beautifully calm underneath clear, blue skies. The small waves rush gently against the rocks, and lap against them cascading over and across your feet. The water creates a mist that gently settles on your sun kissed face. You face the horizon and see limitless possibility. In physics, a wave is disturbance or oscillation that travels through matter or space, accompanied by a transfer of energy. Wave motion transfers energy from one point to another, often with no permanent displacement of the particles of the medium—that is, with little or no associated mass transport. They consist, instead, of oscillations or vibrations around almost fixed locations. Waves are described by a wave equation which sets out how the disturbance proceeds over time. The mathematical form of this equation varies depending on the type of wave.