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Originally Posted by David
The shallow depth of your river will reduce the velocity of tsunami & the wavelength, in this case, greatly. To qualify as a tsunami in your river, the depth of the river must be less than one-half the wavelength of the tsunami. A tsunami is first & foremost a shallow-water wave.
If you give me the average depth of your river, we can compute the speed of a tsunami traveling through it, which will be equal to the square root of the acceleration of gravity times the water depth.
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oh dear.... i thought i would come poke around on the ledge for a bit as a study break from physics (final exam 8:30am tomorrow!) only to find myself reading about physics! baaaaahhh!
