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Past exam of the mathematical methods II course of the University of Oxford 2014 4 a Solution by
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For a branch of the dispersion relation with nonzero , the carrier phase velocity and narrow-band group velocity areThe first follows the constant-phase points of a monochromatic wave; the second follows a slowly varying envelope under the usual weak-distortion wavepacket assumptions.
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