Videos of spherical scalar wave

The videos below were generated by this Mathematica notebook and then compressed by a video editting SW from 150MB to 2MB.

The formula for the scalar wave reads: $$ \psi_{lm} = {\rm const.} \frac{ P^m_l(\cos\theta)~\tilde r^l}{\Big[\Big(1+\tilde r^2-\tilde t^2\Big)^2+4\tilde t^2\Big]^{\frac{l+1}{2}}}\cos\left[ m\varphi - \lambda(t,r) \right], $$ $$ \lambda(t,r) = (l+1) \arctan\frac{2\tilde t}{1+{\tilde r}^2-{\tilde t}^2}. $$ Both spatial and time scales are givem by the parameter a so $$ \tilde t = \frac{r}{a} ~~~~~{\rm and}~~~~~ \tilde t = \frac{t}{a} . $$ The animations on this page show the wave amplitude \(\psi_{lm}\) in the equatoreal plane with $$ a = 1, ~~~~ l = m = 10,~~~~ \theta=\pi/2. $$

Density plot with light background color


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Density plot with black color for vanishing amplitude


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3D plot with "Classic" Mathematica colors


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Animation of scalar wave energy density


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