Index of wave articles

This is a list of wave topics.

0–9

 * 21 cm line

A

 * Abbe prism
 * Absorption spectroscopy
 * Absorption spectrum
 * Absorption wavemeter
 * Acoustic wave
 * Acoustic wave equation
 * Acoustics
 * Acousto-optic effect
 * Acousto-optic modulator
 * Acousto-optics
 * Airy disc
 * Airy wave theory
 * Alfvén wave
 * Alpha waves
 * Amphidromic point
 * Amplitude
 * Amplitude modulation
 * Animal echolocation
 * Antarctic Circumpolar Wave
 * Antiphase
 * Aquamarine Power
 * Arrayed waveguide grating
 * Artificial wave
 * Atmospheric diffraction
 * Atmospheric wave
 * Atmospheric waveguide
 * Atom laser
 * Atomic clock
 * Atomic mirror
 * Audience wave
 * Autowave
 * Averaged Lagrangian

B

 * Babinet's principle
 * Backward wave oscillator
 * Bandwidth-limited pulse
 * beat
 * Berry phase
 * Bessel beam
 * Beta wave
 * Black hole
 * Blazar
 * Bloch's theorem
 * Blueshift
 * Boussinesq approximation (water waves)
 * Bow wave
 * Bragg diffraction
 * Bragg's law
 * Breaking wave
 * Bremsstrahlung, Electromagnetic radiation
 * Brillouin scattering
 * Bullet bow shockwave
 * Burgers' equation
 * Business cycle

C

 * Capillary wave
 * Carrier wave
 * Cherenkov radiation
 * Chirp
 * Ernst Chladni
 * Circular polarization
 * Clapotis
 * Closed waveguide
 * Cnoidal wave
 * Coherence (physics)
 * Coherence length
 * Coherence time
 * Cold wave
 * Collimated light
 * Collimator
 * Compton effect
 * Comparison of analog and digital recording
 * Computation of radiowave attenuation in the atmosphere
 * Continuous phase modulation
 * Continuous wave
 * Convective heat transfer
 * Coriolis frequency
 * Coronal mass ejection
 * Cosmic microwave background radiation
 * Coulomb wave function
 * Cutoff frequency
 * Cutoff wavelength
 * Cymatics

D

 * Damped wave
 * Decollimation
 * Delta wave
 * Dielectric waveguide
 * Diffraction
 * Direction finding
 * Dispersion (optics)
 * Dispersion (water waves)
 * Dispersion relation
 * Dominant wavelength
 * Doppler effect
 * Doppler radar
 * Douglas Sea Scale
 * Draupner wave
 * Droplet-shaped wave
 * Duhamel's principle

E

 * E-skip
 * Earthquake
 * Echo (phenomenon)
 * Echo sounding
 * Echolocation (animal)
 * Echolocation (human)
 * Eddy (fluid dynamics)
 * Edge wave
 * Eikonal equation
 * Ekman layer
 * Ekman spiral
 * Ekman transport
 * El Niño–Southern Oscillation
 * Electroencephalography
 * Electromagnetic electron wave
 * Electromagnetic radiation
 * Electromagnetic wave
 * Electromagnetic wave cut-off
 * Electron
 * Elliott wave
 * Elliptical polarization
 * Emission spectrum
 * Envelope (waves)
 * Equatorial Rossby wave
 * Equatorial waves
 * Essential bandwidth
 * Evanescent wave
 * Extratropical cyclone
 * Extremely low frequency

F

 * F wave
 * Fabry–Pérot interferometer
 * Faraday wave
 * Fetch (geography)
 * Fourier series
 * Fraunhofer diffraction
 * Fraunhofer distance
 * Freak wave
 * Frequency
 * Frequency modulation
 * Fresnel diffraction
 * Fresnel equations
 * Fresnel integral
 * Fresnel lens
 * Fresnel number
 * Fresnel rhomb
 * Fresnel zone
 * Fresnel–Arago laws
 * Fundamental frequency

G

 * Gamma ray
 * Gamma ray burst
 * Gamma wave
 * Gaussian beam
 * Geometric optics, Geometrical optics
 * Geostrophic current
 * Gravitational radiation
 * Gravity wave
 * Groundwave
 * Group delay
 * Group velocity

H

 * Harmonic
 * Heat wave
 * Holography
 * Human echolocation
 * Hundred-year wave
 * Hurricane
 * Huygens' principle
 * Hydraulic jump
 * Hydrography
 * Hydropower
 * Hyperbolic partial differential equation

I

 * In phase
 * Inertial wave
 * Infragravity wave
 * Infrared gas analyzer
 * Inhomogeneous electromagnetic wave equation
 * Interference (wave propagation)
 * Interferometry
 * Internal wave
 * Inverse scattering transform
 * Ion acoustic wave
 * Irradiance

K

 * Kelvin wave
 * Kinematic wave
 * Knife-edge effect
 * Kondratiev wave

L

 * Lamb waves
 * Landau damping
 * Lee wave
 * Linear elasticity
 * Linear polarization
 * List of waves named after people
 * Long wavelength limit
 * Longitudinal mode
 * Longitudinal wave
 * Longwave
 * Love wave

M

 * Mach wave
 * Mach–Zehnder interferometer
 * Maelstrom (disambiguation)
 * Magnetometer
 * Magnetosonic wave
 * Matter wave
 * Maxwell's equations
 * Mayer waves
 * Mechanical wave
 * Medical ultrasonography
 * Mediumwave
 * Megatsunami
 * Microbarom
 * Microwave
 * Microwave auditory effect
 * Microwave oven
 * Microwave plasma
 * Microwaving
 * Mie scattering
 * Millimeter cloud radar
 * Modulation
 * Monochromatic electromagnetic plane wave
 * Monochromator
 * Moonlight
 * Morning Glory cloud
 * Mu wave
 * Multipath propagation

N

 * Neural oscillation
 * Neutron
 * Nondispersive infrared sensor
 * Nonlinear Schrödinger equation
 * Nonlinear wave
 * Nonlinear X-wave
 * Normal mode

O

 * Ocean surface wave
 * One-Way Wave Equation
 * Optical fiber
 * Optical waveguide
 * Oscillon
 * Out of phase
 * Outgoing longwave radiation
 * Overtone
 * Oyster wave energy converter

P

 * P-wave
 * Parabolic reflector
 * Periodic function
 * Periodic travelling wave
 * Phase (waves)
 * Phase difference
 * Phase modulation
 * Phase velocity
 * Phonon
 * Photon
 * Pitch shifter (audio processor)
 * Planck constant
 * Planck's law
 * Plane wave
 * Polarization (waves)
 * Ponto-geniculo-occipital waves, PGO waves
 * Power standing wave ratio
 * pp-wave spacetime
 * Pressure wave
 * Prism
 * Proton
 * Pulsar
 * Pulsar wind nebula
 * Pulse wave velocity
 * Pulse-density modulation

Q

 * QT interval
 * quadrature
 * Quadrature amplitude modulation
 * Quantum optics
 * Quantum tunneling
 * Quantum Zeno effect

R

 * Radar
 * Radar astronomy
 * Radar cross section
 * Radar gun
 * Radio propagation
 * Radio waves
 * Radiosity (heat transfer)
 * Rayleigh scattering
 * Rayleigh wave
 * Rayleigh–Jeans law
 * Redshift
 * Reflection coefficient
 * Reflection seismology
 * Refraction
 * Relativistic Doppler effect
 * Resonance
 * Resonator
 * Ring laser gyroscope
 * Ring modulation
 * Ring wave guide
 * Rip current
 * ripple
 * Ripple tank
 * Rogue wave (oceanography)
 * Rossby wave
 * Rossby-gravity waves
 * Rydberg constant
 * Rydberg formula

S

 * S-wave
 * Sampling (signal processing)
 * Sawtooth wave
 * Schrödinger equation
 * Sea state
 * Seiche
 * Seismic wave
 * Seismograph
 * Seismology
 * Sellmeier equation
 * Shallow water equations
 * Shive wave machine
 * Shock wave
 * Shortwave radio
 * Signal velocity
 * Significant wave height
 * Sine wave
 * Single-sideband modulation
 * Sinusoidal plane-wave solutions of the electromagnetic wave equation
 * Skywave
 * Slow-wave potential
 * Slow-wave sleep
 * Sneaker wave
 * Solitary wave
 * Soliton
 * Sonar
 * Sonic anemometers
 * Sound wave
 * Spark-gap transmitter
 * Spectroscopy
 * Speed of gravity
 * Speed of light
 * Speed of sound
 * Spike-and-wave
 * Spin wave
 * Square wave
 * Standing wave
 * Standing wave ratio
 * Stefan–Boltzmann law
 * Stokes drift
 * Stokes wave
 * Subharmonic
 * Super low frequency
 * Superharmonic
 * Superposition principle
 * Supersonic Wave Filter
 * Surface acoustic wave
 * Surface wave
 * Surface wave inversion
 * Surface-wave magnitude
 * Surface-wave-sustained discharge
 * Surfing
 * Sverdrup wave
 * Swell (ocean)
 * Synthetic-aperture radar

T

 * T wave
 * Terrestrial gamma-ray flash
 * Terrestrial stationary waves
 * Theta wave
 * Tidal bore
 * Tidal power
 * Tidal resonance
 * Tide
 * Tired light theory
 * Transverse mode
 * Transverse wave
 * Traveling plane wave
 * Traveling wave antenna
 * Traveling wave reactor
 * Traveling-wave tube
 * Triangle wave
 * Trigonometric function
 * Trojan wave packet
 * Tropical wave
 * Tsunami
 * Turbidity current

U

 * Ultra low frequency
 * Ultrasound
 * Ultraviolet catastrophe
 * Undertow (wave action)
 * Underwater wave
 * Undular bore

V

 * Velocity factor
 * Vestigial-sideband modulation
 * Vibrating string
 * Voltage standing wave ratio
 * Vortex
 * Vorticity

W

 * Wake
 * Wave (audience)
 * Wave base
 * Wave disk engine
 * Wave drag
 * Wave equation
 * Wave farm
 * Wave field synthesis
 * Wave function
 * Wave function collapse
 * Wave height
 * Wave impedance
 * Wave loading
 * Wave motor
 * Wave packet
 * Wave period
 * Wave plate
 * Wave pool
 * Wave pounding
 * Wave power
 * Wave propagation
 * Wave shoaling
 * Wave surface
 * Wave tank
 * Wave turbulence
 * Wave vector
 * Wave velocity
 * Wave–current interaction
 * Wave-cut platform
 * Wave-making resistance
 * Waveform
 * Waveform monitor
 * Wave-formed ripple
 * Wavefront
 * Wavefunction
 * Wavefunction collapse
 * Waveguide
 * Waveguide (acoustics)
 * Waveguide (electromagnetism)
 * Waveguide (optics)
 * Waveguide flange
 * Wavelength
 * Wavelength selective switching
 * Wavelength-division multiplexing
 * Wavelet
 * Wavelet transform
 * Wavenumber
 * Zonal wavenumber
 * Wavenumber-frequency diagram
 * Wave–particle duality
 * Waverider
 * Waves and shallow water
 * Waves in plasmas
 * Whitham's method
 * Wien approximation
 * Wien's displacement law
 * Wien's law
 * Wind wave
 * Windsurfing

X

 * X-band radar
 * X-ray
 * X-wave

Z

 * Zero-dispersion slope
 * Zero-dispersion wavelength
 * Zigzag
 * Zodiacal light
 * Zone plate