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Foundations of Wave Phenomena

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Foundations of Wave Phenomena

We will now find the “general solution” to the one-dimensional wave equation (5.11). What this means is that we will find a formula involving some “data” — some arbitrary functions — which provides every possible solution to the wave equation.