Physics for beginners/Journal/07-waves

About the author

Matthew Raspanti was born in 1924 in New York City but moved to Sicily as a child, where he eventually earned a doctorate in industrial engineering summa cum laude at the University of Palermo. He also earned a master's degree in electrical engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in the United States, where he worked at Bell Labs for 35 years, most of that time as a department head. Since retiring he has written extensively on physics and philosophy. For more works written by Raspanti, visit his home page at:

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