Reflection of water waves off cliffs at a coast is usually not an important part of coastal wave behaviour, unless the coast has a steep cliff or seawall.
All waves behave in certain characteristic ways. They can undergo refraction, reflection, interference and diffraction. These basic properties define the ...
What is a wave? Most of us think of the waves we see at the beach. The waves come in ...
Dr Willem de Lange is a researcher and senior lecturer in the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the ...
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