Sometimes we want the choice of the origin of x and t to be arbitrary, so we have to throw in an “initial phase” ?

• Sometimes we want the choice of the origin of x and t to be arbitrary, so we have to throw in an “initial phase” ?

• We like to define another “2? killer” ?=2?f

• The key here is the traveling wave form, which comes from the wave equation, which we will soon derive for the string

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