Waves at boundaries and interference

Submitted by bogusia on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 02:00.

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Stories

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teaching, physics, waves

Tomorrow I am teaching a class on waves. I wanted to talk about waves at boundaries and interference.

Here is a great animation of the "waves at a boundary":

Great visual explanation of constructive and destructive interference and standing waves:

Here is a good demonstration of constructive and destructive interference:

Here is a great site for high speed photography of all sorts of wave phenomena:

Here is a quick visual demonstration of how standing waves form:

Wave resonance demonstrated on a bridge:

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