Tuesday, February 19, 2019

classical mechanics - How do waves have momentum?


A question on a practice test I'm taking is as follows:




By shaking one end of a stretched string, a single pulse is generated. The traveling pulse carries:
A. mass
B. energy
C. momentum
D. energy and momentum
E. mass, energy and momentum



How would one describe the momentum of a wave?




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