# 2006-01-14 Surface waves

- By: Roger McLassus
- Date: 2006-01-14
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: picture taken by Roger McLassus (improved by DemonDeLuxe, Sep 2006)
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2006-01-14_Surface_waves.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/4/43/2006-01-14_Surface_waves.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Surface waves of water: expansion of a disturbance. – It shows a realistic disturbance (caused by shortly dipping a stick into the water) and its expansion forming interfering circles of limited concentricity. The near metallic appearance of the water's surface is due to the small angle of illumination.