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wave packet

short "burst" or "envelope" of restricted wave action that travels as a unit
Class type of: envelope Q1412691

Facts

3 properties
Instance of
wave function
Subclass of
envelope[2]
Described by source
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[3]
🏷️ Also known as
en wavepacket en wave train en wavepackets en wave packet ar حزمة موجية cs vlnový balík de Wellenpaket de Wellengruppe es paquete de ondas es tren de ondas fa بسته موج fr train d'onde fr paquet d'onde fr paquet d'ondes fr train d'ondes he חבורת גלים he חבילת גלים it pacchetto d'onda ja 波束 ko 확률파동
🔖 Identifiers · 9
OpenAlex ID
C106978608
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Propagation of wave packet.png ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/wave-train
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
paquets-d-ondes
Freebase ID
/m/02b91p
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11ghyk63jj
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
1926516
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
wave-packets
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
106978608

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 1
wave function
Subclass of 1
envelope
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Summary

wave packet is a wave function[1].

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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