The document describes harmonic waves and provides an example involving echolocation in bats. It defines harmonic waves using the equation D(x) = A sin(kx) and discusses key terms like amplitude, wavelength, wave number, and speed. For the bat example, it calculates that the speed of the sound wave is 75,000 m/s, the wave number is 0.84 rad/m, and the equation for the travelling wave is D(x, t) = 0.9sin(4.19x- 0.000126t). It also sketches the function.