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Do waves continue indefinitely without loosing energy? (How?)


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It depends on what kind of waves you are talking about. Electromagnetic waves do continue indefinitely without loosing energy as a whole but as is obvious, this energy spreads over larger and larger regions of space and so energy per unit area at the wavefront decreases.

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