Saturday, August 6, 2016

Wave packets Group Velocity


For the the group velocity of a wave packet, the group velocity is the partial derivative of omega with respect to the wavenumber, what does this mean? I thought that for some given wave packet both the angular frequency and wave number should be fixed, so what differentiation $d$ is there?




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