Exploration 17.6: Make a Standing Wave

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Find a wave function, g(x, t), that will produce a standing wave with a node at x = 0 m, i.e., at the center (position is given in meters and time is given in seconds). You may want to pause the animation before you click-drag the mouse to read position coordinates. Restart.



Exploration authored by Morten Brydensholt, Wolfgang Christian, and Mario Belloni.
Script authored by Morten Brydensholt, Wolfgang Christian, and Mario Belloni.
© 2004 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. A Pearson Company
HTML updated for JavaScript by Aidan Edmondson.
Physlets were developed at Davidson College and converted from Java to JavaScript using the SwingJS system developed at St. Olaf College.