: why do the waves at beaches end at a certain point?

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Think of it as a bath tub, if you filled it up to the brim, and pushed the water towards the edge (let’s also assume the top of your bathtub is at floor level)

It’s makes a wave that continues across the water all the way until the edge, once it hits the edge, it immediately starts to lose water, since now it’s going all over the floor instead of running over the water

Same thing with a beach, the waves are rolling onto the ground and there is no water underneath them for them to continue pushing, so they go as far as there momentum allows and after that they simply just don’t have anymore water to pull with on the beach

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