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The 14 pages that link to Plane wave, each with the reason it gives.

• WavefrontBroader topic: It is the simplest wavefront geometry.

• Bloch's theoremRelated: The theorem separates this traveling-wave factor from the lattice-periodic part.

• Dispersion relationRelated: Plane-wave solutions make frequency and wave number explicit.

• Fresnel equationsNarrower topic: The standard derivation treats incident, reflected, and transmitted light as plane waves.

• Klein–Gordon equationBroader topic: Substituting plane waves reveals the equation’s relativistic energy–momentum relation.

• Helmholtz equationBroader topic: Plane waves solve the homogeneous equation in unbounded uniform space.

• Parabolic reflectorRelated: At large distances, incoming radiation is often approximated as a plane wave with parallel rays.

• Nearly-free-electron modelRelated: Free-electron states are plane waves before the crystal potential mixes them.

• Poynting vectorBroader topic: Its simple field geometry makes the vector's magnitude and direction explicit.

• Momentum operatorRelated: Plane waves are eigenfunctions of the free-particle momentum operator.

• Wave vectorBroader topic: For a plane wave, the wave vector is normal to the equal-phase planes.

• Electromagnetic wave equationBroader topic: Plane-wave solutions make propagation direction, speed, and polarization explicit.

• Free particleBroader topic: A plane wave is a standard momentum eigenstate of the free-particle Hamiltonian.

• Impedance of free spaceBroader topic: For a plane wave in vacuum, electric and magnetic amplitudes have this fixed ratio.