Word: wave
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Greenspan is an applied mathematician whose work on surface wave theory and other aspects of hydrodynamics is of value to oceanographers...
...manager of Egypt's Suez Canal administration, wired the twelve passengers a Happy Easter and a pleasant trip. At Ismailia, U.S. Lieut. General Raymond A. Wheeler left his office in the U.N. canal-clearance headquarters, appeared on the canal bank to salute the ship's captain and wave to the passengers...
...Wave v. Particle...
Continuing the history he had begun in his last lecture, Oppenheimer explained how the wave and particle aspects of light led the French physicist deBroglie to postulate that all matter could be represented mathematically by waves...
...area of the nature of light, the conflict between light's wave and quantum nature was cited as another example of the clash between the traditional and the newly discovered. After Huygens' enunciation of his famous Principle, the whole question of light's nature and propagation appeared settled. But Planck's theory of the quant of light energy, as elaborated by Einstein, threw the classical conceptions into serious problems...