Kieff, Ptj, Wikipedia, public domain

 

Standing Wave - St. Mary's Physics Online

 

B) Standing Wave – waves produced when two waves of the same frequency and amplitude travels in opposite directions in the same medium (Musical instruments)

 

Standing Waves/Sound/Chladni - Berkeley Univ.

Standing Waves - HyperPhysics

Standing Waves/Sound/Chladni - Berkeley Univ.

Standing Waves - Wake Forest .U. (Chladni Disk)

Physics of the Acoustic Guitar - Fletcher

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Maximum destructive interference occurs at the nodes

Same Frequency & Amplitude

Standing waves can also be produced by reflection



Standing Wave - David M. Harrison

How many nodes? ____

 

How many antinodes? ____

 

How many waves? ____

 

Standing wave and frequency - C. K. Eng

Standing waves - Wake Forest .U. Video - (Chladni Disk)

Wikipedia, Houtlijm, public domain

 

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C) Resonance – Building up of energy by adding small amounts of energy in time with the natural frequency of an object

 

Resonance Frequency – natural frequency that an object vibrates when disturbed

 

Resonance Wine Glass - Youtube

Sound Pulverizing Kidney Stones - S. Wirt

Sound breaking a wine glass - S. Wirt

Video of breaking glass - Salford University

 

D) Diffraction – the spreading out of a wave into the region behind an obstacle

Single Slit Diffraction - B.Y.U.

Wave/Slit/Diffraction

Amount of diffraction depends on
 wavelength & size of slit

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Diffraction will be more dramatic as the size of the slit approaches the wavelength of the wave.

 

Which slit will case light to diffract the most?

 

 

 

 

A - closest to wavelength of light

 

More on Diffraction - University of British Columbia

Why does amount of diffraction increase as the size of the slit decreases - - Molecular Expressions 

 

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