Fun #WaveWatching today! Reflections all the way….and then the boundary suddenly ends!

You might remember this edge here and the reflection situation.

More details in this recent post, but in a nutshell: The wave crests marked in red are approaching the beach and wooden edge, and where they hit the wooden edge, they get reflected and converted into the green wave crests which propagate away from the edge again.

And this is what the other side of the edge looks like: The reflections end where the edge stops!

Again, the red wave crests are the incoming waves, and the green the reflections. Waves always travel perpendicularly to their crests, so you see how they propagate away from the boundary and appear to be cut on the right side where the boundary suddenly stopped and no reflection could happen any more.

 

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