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Standing Wave

By Janice VanCleave

An Example of Superposition of Waves: A Standing Wave

What Is A Standing Wave? A standing wave is the pattern produced in a medium as the result of the repeated interference of two identical waves moving in opposite directions through the medium. All standing wave patterns have nodes and antinodes. The nodes are points of no displacement caused by the destructive interference of the […]

Filed Under: Force and Motion, Physics Tagged With: antinode, constructive interference, destructive interference, displacement, Law of Superposition., node, standing wave

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