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Originally Posted by mike_espo
I happen to have a physics degree. Tsunami effects are a totally different effect than ocean waves. It has nothing to do with compressability of fluids.:rotfl: It does have everything to do with wave propogation, magnitude of the wave and relative depth where the tsunami wave is at the time.
These are two unrelated phenomena.
Before you flame a post, check your facts.
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There's no need to fly off the handle, sir, I wasn't flaming anyone, as you may have observed from the lack of a quote.
If you want to go much further into a physics lecture, go to another forum here, I'm sure this isn't the right one for it. The point I was making was that the depth of the water, and to some degree the presence or absence of dry land near you, are the chief criteria. I was mentioning compressibility of fluids to make it clear that waves in water, for instance, behave a little differently from other waves that some readers may have had in mind. The infelicitous expression arose from my inability to recall proper terminology.
Incidentally, if I recall my physics classes, a wave in water is a wave water is a wave in water. A tsunami's height from the very bottom to the top may be immensly greater than waves caused by meteorological sources, but it's still a wave. As you might have noticed, all I was really trying to point out is that waves, regardless of height (total height for those still reading, i. e., the
amplitude) are not going to affect a submarine very much until the bottom of the wave hits land, because a submerged vessel is inside the medium.
And no, this is not the right place to conduct a physics class, if I'm mistaken still. For those of us poor benighted souls who didn't
major in physics, you might have some consideration that we might be recalling something from quite a while ago and refrain from your supercilious tone and superfluous and unamusing smilies.
I'm a professional writer, BTW - I could spend all my time, every day, on Internet forums correcting people's English, spelling, etc. I don't because it would be rude. Sometimes, sir, it doesn't matter if you're right, if all you do is annoy the listener.