18.152 | Fall 2011 | Undergraduate

Introduction to Partial Differential Equations

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Spherical waves coming from a point source. The solution of the initial-value problem for the wave equation in three space dimensions can be obtained from the solution for a spherical wave. Image by Oleg Alexandrov on Wikimedia, including MATLAB source code.

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Animated image of spherical waves coming from a point source.
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Spherical waves coming from a point source. The solution of the initial-value problem for the wave equation in three space dimensions can be obtained from the solution for a spherical wave. (Image by Oleg Alexandrov on Wikimedia, including MATLAB source code.)
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Image by Oleg Alexandrov on Wikimedia, including MATLAB source code.
Animated image of spherical waves coming from a point source.

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