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Longitudinal Waves

Longitudinal Waves is a type of mechanical wave in which the direction of particle oscillation is parallel to the direction of wave propagation, distinguishing it from transverse and surface waves in the study of wave behavior in elastic media.

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Variants

Compressional Waves

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Linear Models of Dissipation whose Q is almost Frequency Independent--II

Michèle Caputo · Geophysical Journal International · 1967 · 4.3K citations · Full text

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Deformation Potentials and Mobilities in Non-Polar Crystals

J. Bardeen, W. Shockley · Physical Review · 1950 · 3.8K citations

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Random-Phase Approximation in the Theory of Superconductivity

Philip W. Anderson · Physical Review · 1958 · 1.4K citations

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Waves in a Plasma in a Magnetic Field

Ira B. Bernstein · Physical Review · 1958 · 1.1K citations

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From Maxwell to paraxial wave optics

M. Lax, William H. Louisell, W. B. McKnight · Physical review. A, General physics · 1975 · 930 citations

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  1. PU
    P. Ulmschneider

    Heidelberg University, Germany

    11 publications · 371 citations

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  2. AH
    Atsushi Hosokawa

    National Institute of Technology, Akashi College, Japan

    10 publications · 795 citations

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  3. BG
    B. Gutenberg

    California Institute of Technology, United States

    10 publications · 500 citations

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  4. SK
    S. K. Tomar

    Panjab University, India

    9 publications · 217 citations

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    W. P. Mason

    Columbia University, United States

    7 publications · 805 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    26 h-index

    184 publications

    6.8K citations

  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    19 h-index

    36 publications

    1.4K citations

  3. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    14 h-index

    23 publications

    919 citations

  4. Brown University

    Providence, United States

    13 h-index

    29 publications

    814 citations

  5. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    13 h-index

    27 publications

    1.6K citations

  6. Sorbonne Université

    Paris, France

    12 h-index

    28 publications

    908 citations

  7. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    11 h-index

    19 publications

    1.3K citations

  8. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    11 h-index

    24 publications

    2K citations

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  1. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

    JASA · 113 publications · 6.3K citations

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  2. Physical Review

    52 publications · 9.6K citations

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  3. Journal of Applied Physics

    66 publications · 2.3K citations

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  4. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 36 publications · 3K citations

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  5. The Physics of Fluids

    40 publications · 2.4K citations

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