What is an oscillation or disturbance that travels through space called?

It takes a lot of energy to get the temperature of water to increase and eventually boil because water has a high heat.

Dc versus ac problem. suppose your dc power supply is set to 15 v and the vertical setting on the oscilloscope is at 5 v/div. how many divisions will the trace deflect if you connect the output of the power supply to the scope with the a input switch set on dc? how many divisions if the switch is on ac?

The center of a long frictionless rod is pivoted at the origin, and the rod is forced to rotate in a vertical plane with constant angular velocity \omega. write down the lagrangian for a bead of mass m threaded on the rod, using r as your generalized coordinate, where r, \phi are the polar coordinates of the bead. (notice that \phi is not an independent variable since it is fixed by the rotation of the rod tobe \phi = \omega * t) solve lagrange's equation for r(t). what happens if the bead is initially at rest at the origin? if it is released from any point ro > 0, show that r(t) eventually grows exponentially. explain your results in terms of the centrifugal force m* \omega ^2 *r.