WOLFRAM|DEMONSTRATIONS PROJECT

Traveling Longitudinal Pulses and Standing Waves

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three-period traveling pulses
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This Demonstration shows the oscillatory motion of particles for several types of longitudinal waves (such as sound waves), including traveling pulses and different modes of standing waves. Note that since the wave motion is longitudinal, the particle displacements
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