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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [August 5, 2022]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Different Types of Ocean Waves

Waves are this whole phenomenon that happen in lots of different situations. In an ocean, there are waves where the water is pushed up and as it's pushed up, it's pulled more down by gravity. Now if you were to kind of take a slice through a typical ocean wave, what you find is if you looked at the actual molecules of water, you'd find they're going in circles. The surface of the ocean complicated? Well it's because there are interactions between these different trains of waves.

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