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Regular time-harmonic spherical wave (u(r,t)=Asin(ωt)sin(ωr/c)/(ωr/c))

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For a spherically symmetric function, v=ru reduces the radial wave equation to vtt​=c2vrr​. A time-harmonic separated solution has radial numerator Csin(kr)+Dcos(kr), with k=ω/c. Finiteness at the origin excludes D, and the prescribed finite origin value fixes C. This is a standing combination of incoming and outgoing waves. A purely outgoing point-source wave instead has a 1/r singularity and must be specified by its source strength, not by a finite value at the origin.

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