Demos about Standing Waves

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A movie of a standing wave as the superposition of two counter-propagating traveling waves.

Here the two traveling waves which make the standing wave result from a reflection from a fixed end.

A page with a sequence of images illustrating how to think of the fundamental standing wave as two counter-propagating, reflecting pulses.

A movie showing a complex standing wave (2 sinusoidal components)

A movie showing another complex standing wave which looks more like a standing pulse.