Thursday, 6 June 2019

fourier transform - Why can a wave be expressed with a sine function?


I see many expressions which express waves with the sine function like $y=\sin(kx-\omega t)$.


Waves really look similar to the shapes of a sine or cosine function, but does this guarantee that expressions that show wave-like movement are sine or cosine functions or is this just an approximation?




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