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Plane Waves in Air

Figure B.9 shows a 2D $ xy$ cross-section of a snapshot (in time) of the sinusoidal plane wave

$\displaystyle p(x,y,z) = p_0 + \cos(k_x x + k_y y)
$

for $ k_x = 2\pi 5$ and $ k_y=2\pi 5/2$ , with $ x$ and $ y$ in the range $ [0,1)$ .

Figure B.9: Gray-scale density plot of the $ xy$ cross-section of a sinusoidal plane wave $ p(t,\underline {x}) = \cos \left (\omega t - \underline {k}^T\underline {x}\right )$ , at $ t=0$ with vector wavenumber $ \underline {k}^T=[10\pi , 5\pi , 0]$ .
\includegraphics[width=\twidth]{eps/planewave}

Figure B.10 depicts a more mathematical schematic of a sinusoidal plane wave traveling toward the upper-right of the figure. The dotted lines indicate the crests (peak amplitude location) along the wave.

Figure B.10: Wave crests of the sinusoidal traveling plane wave $ p(t,\underline {x}) = \cos \left (\omega t - \underline {k}^T\underline {x}\right )$ , for some fixed time $ t$ and $ \underline {x}$ in the $ (x,y,0)$ plane.
\includegraphics{eps/planewaveangle}

The direction of travel and spatial frequency are indicated by the vector wavenumber $ \underline{k}$ , as discussed in the following section.


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