Standing+Waves

__Standing Waves:__ - Standing waves are also known and called stationary waves. - A standing wave is a wave that stays in a constant position.

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- This image shows strings being held at various spots. This has the same concept as a guitar string. When the string is held at different locations along the string, the frequency of the string is changed. The higher the frequencies, the smaller the wavelength is. Taking that to the image, the string at the bottom as the highest frequency, while the string at the top has the lowest frequency. All in all, this shows how a standing wave can be changed and set to have different wavelengths and frequencies.

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- This wave clip shows how the vibration flows through a standing wave. The vibrations keep flowing through the wave and continuously keep bouncing off the attached ends. When the wave comes to the end of the wave, the wave is transfered to the bottom.

Web page that explains standing waves to a further extent. Includes how nodes and antinodes stay in the same spot along the standing wave.

- In the attached link below, a model of how standing waves is present in the real world. As someone plays a guitar, the vibrated strings have waves that are sent up and down them, which in turn emits sound which is then resonated from the guitar. This page illustrates this, and explains a lot there is needed to know about standing or stationary waves. - Guitar [|link] media type="file" key="Standing Waves.m4v" - This is just a very simple clip that gives another example of a standing wave. The waves can continuously flow, and they can flow at different speeds.