Explaining the physics of tsunamis to undergraduate and non-physics students

European Journal of Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 401-407

  Margaritondo, G ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; DISPERSIONS; TSUNAMIS; WATER WAVES; WAVE EFFECTS;

CAPILLARY WAVE MODELS; ELEMENTARY APPROACH; UNDERGRADUATES; WAVE PROPERTIES;

TEACHING;

EID: 23844544614     PISSN: 01430807     EISSN: 01430807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0143-0807/26/3/007     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. Behroozi F and Podolefsky N 2001 Eur. J. Phys. 23 225
2. See, for example, www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/physics/ physics.html of the University of Washington; and www.wcatwc.gov/physics.htm of the West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center, NOAA (a US government agency).
3. See, for example, Thorne K S Applications of Classical Physics chapter 15 (available in pdf form in the site www.pma.caltech.edu/Courses/ph136/yr2002/ index.html of Caltech), or any medium-level textbook in hydrodynamics.