Breaking Ocean Wave
by Marie Dudek Brown
Title
Breaking Ocean Wave
Artist
Marie Dudek Brown
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Ocean waves rolling in at New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
A wave can be broken down into three main components. They are:
Crest: it's the top of the wave - the highest point of any wave;
Trough: it's the bottom of the wave; the lowest region of a wave; the opposite of the crest. The trough is often constant for waves traveling in the open ocean. When they're about to break, waves have deeper troughs;
Face: it's the front of a breaking wave; the vertical distance between the crest and the trough is the wave height; the wavelength is the distance between two adjacent crests or troughs; the wave period is the time period between the crest of one wave, and the crest of the next wave.
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November 7th, 2020
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