Right-triangle geometry of internal-wave velocities
ID: right-triangle-geometry-of-internal-wave-velocities
Choose , and the positive angular frequency . Then the phase velocity is and the group velocity is . Their dot product vanishes and their sum is horizontal with magnitude . Draw the group velocity from the tip of the phase velocity: the two form the perpendicular sides of a right triangle. The horizontal hypotenuse is their sum, not the horizontal phase velocity .
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