A traveling wave with arbitrary phase can be written as (x, t) = A sin

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A traveling wave with arbitrary phase ∅ can be written as ψ (x, t) = A sin (kx −ω t + ∅). What are the units of ∅? Show that ∅ could be used to represent a shift in the origin of time or distance.

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Physical Chemistry

ISBN: 978-0321812001

3rd edition

Authors: Thomas Engel, Philip Reid

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