Traveling wave mode expansion

Now we substitute a traveling wave disturbance into the linearized equation.  Note that the substitution is done in a way that works for any arbitrary derivative.

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We now divide out the original disturbance, which is possible since we used an exponential form.

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Back to conclusions

The result is the complete dispersion relation for waves in this system.  The relation between speed and frequency and wavenumber is given in this relation as is the linear growth.

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