# Waves on Water

Collaborator, John S. Shelton

Uses principles discovered in the laboratory as a basis for interpreting the characteristics of waves and wave motion on the sea surface. Identifies wind as the most common source of a wave's energy, and points out that observation of waves in a tank reveals that the particles in a wave describe circular orbits of a size inversely related to depth. Shows that waves are also caused by applying energy to the water's container, as happens in nature when an underwater earthquake alters the ocean floor, producing giant seismic waves

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1989
- By: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc, American Geological Institute
- Genres: Education, Science, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/wavesonwater_201608)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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