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Re: Water waves

At 8:23 AM -0500 6/28/01, Kevin McKone, you wrote about Water waves:


Small water waves < 1.7 cm tend to use surface tension as a restoring=
force. These waves are commonly called capillary waves.

Water waves with larger wavelengths use gravity as a restoring force,=
these being called gravity waves.


and IIRC the speed of this second kind is strongly depth dependent as
shown by ocean waves arriving at shore in a fairly 'parallel to
shore' orientation.
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