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Water waves bounce off denser objects such as sandy or rocky shores. Very long waves such as tsunamis bounce off the continental slope ... Anyone having watched water waves rippling outward from the point where a stone was thrown in, should have noticed how effortlessly waves can propagate along the water's surface.
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www.seafriends.org.nz/oceano/waves.htm
www.seafriends.org.nz/oceano/waves.htm
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Any disturbance can cause a water wave. A pebble striking the surface, movement of a boat, movement of the earth during an earthquake, or the wind. Here we focus on wind generated waves, although the same principles apply to all water waves.
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www.owrc.com/waves/waves.html
www.owrc.com/waves/waves.html
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What Causes Ocean Waves?. The winds causes waves on the surface of the ocean (and on lakes). The wind transfers some of its energy into the water, through friction between the air molecules and the water molecules). ... Waves of water do not move horizontally, they only move up and down (a wave does not represent a flow...
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www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/ocean/Waves.shtml
www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/ocean/Waves.shtml
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What causes waves? ... How are ocean waves described? ... Waves are created by wind tides and the Earth's rotational motion. Click here for a thorough explanation of The Birth of a Wave; or click here for another explanation...
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www.can-do.com/uci/lessons98/Oceanwaves.html
www.can-do.com/uci/lessons98/Oceanwaves.html
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Wind wave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In fluid dynamics, wind waves or, more precisely, wind-generated waves are surface waves that occur on the free surface of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and canals or even on small puddles and pond...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_wave
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There are many kinds of waves, such as water waves, sound waves, light waves, radio waves, microwaves and earthquake waves. All waves have some things in common. ... In the open sea, waves make floating boats bob up and down instead of pushing them along. This is because the waves travel through water, the do not take the...
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www.mos.org/oceans/motion/wind.html
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The word "waves" makes most (normal) people think about waves crashing on a beach, not electromagnetic radiation. But both kinds of waves have some things in common, such as crests, troughs, wavelength, and frequency.
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www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/waves_particles/waves.htm...
www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/waves_particles/waves.html
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Tsunamis are unlike wind-generated waves, which many of us may have observed on a local lake or at a coastal beach, in that they are characterized as shallow-water waves, with long periods and wave lengths.
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www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/physics/char...
www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/physics/characteristics.html
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