Travelling Pulses (Wave Packets)

These pulses are solutions to nonlinear partial differential equations that will be developed in other Demonstrations. The and pulses are constant amplitude solitonic solutions to the Modified-Korteweg–deVries equation; and are solutions to the original Korteweg–deVries equation. These equations include nonlinearities that cancel the dispersive effect of the change of velocity with frequency (so the pulses do not become lower and wider with time). Different amplitude solitons have different velocities, "passing through" each other with a "change of phase" (not shown in this Demonstration). The Schrödinger equation has Gaussian wave packet solutions that do become lower and wider as time passes—it describes "information about particles". Presumably there is an undiscovered equation that describes sets of stable particles as multi-dimensional wave packets.