On the ‘wave momentum’ myth

DOI10.1017/S0022112081001626zbMath0471.76016OpenAlexW2159866799WikidataQ56057597 ScholiaQ56057597MaRDI QIDQ3926204

M. E. McIntyre

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112081001626

zbMATH Keywords

pseudomomentumwave momentumconservable quantities in quantum mechanics, acoustic and gravity wavescontroversies on the wave momentum mythtowing rigid slender bodywave- drag

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Hydro- and aero-acoustics (76Q05) Foundations, quantum information and its processing, quantum axioms, and philosophy (81P99) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40)

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