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Plane waves are both an independent type of sound wave and a tool used in the study of the characteristics of wave processes of the most general type. By its structure, the plane wave is probably the simplest wave object. The most general description of this wave can be given as follows.
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Brekhovskikh LM, Goncharov VV (1982) Introduction to continuum mechanics. (Appendix to the theory of waves) M.: Science, 336 p
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Kistovich, A., Pokazeev, K., Chaplina, T. (2020). Plane Sound Waves. In: Ocean Acoustics. Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35884-6_4
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