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Re: [Phys-l] sound waves and beam flexures

At 2:32 PM -0700 2/24/10, John Denker wrote:
On 02/24/2010 01:00 PM, chuck britton wrote:

> Might solitons be an extreme example of this??

Actually solitons are in some sense almost the opposite of
dispersion. They depend critically on nonlinearity.


OK, I might have thought that 'Near Zero Dispersion' might count as one extreme.
Certainly depends on the boundaries of the media as you note.


just another nit to pick.