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Standing and
Travelling Waves
BY: STEVEN DANG
What is a travelling wave?
 Travelling waves are wave patterns that is seen travelling through a
medium and is not confined to a given space along the medium.
Standing wave: waves bounce
back and forth when they
reach the boundaries on either
end
Travelling wave: waves move
in one direction and do not
move back and forth as there
is no boundary. (ex. Ocean
waves)
As standing waves
reflect, the reflected
portion will interfere with
the initial portion of the
wave in a orderly
fashion. This interference
resembles a sine graph.
Ocean waves are a
little different, although
the sine wave patterns
in ocean particles
interfere with one
another, they do so in
an unorderly fashion
and causes irregular
and non-repeating
motions.
When a proper frequency
is used, there are points in
a standing wave where
the wave seems to be
standing still, those points
are called nodes.
Travelling waves have no
nodes because there are
no boundaries.
node
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no7ZPPq
tZEg
Video of standing wave on a
string:
Thank You!

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Standing and travelling waves

  • 2. What is a travelling wave?  Travelling waves are wave patterns that is seen travelling through a medium and is not confined to a given space along the medium. Standing wave: waves bounce back and forth when they reach the boundaries on either end Travelling wave: waves move in one direction and do not move back and forth as there is no boundary. (ex. Ocean waves)
  • 3. As standing waves reflect, the reflected portion will interfere with the initial portion of the wave in a orderly fashion. This interference resembles a sine graph. Ocean waves are a little different, although the sine wave patterns in ocean particles interfere with one another, they do so in an unorderly fashion and causes irregular and non-repeating motions.
  • 4. When a proper frequency is used, there are points in a standing wave where the wave seems to be standing still, those points are called nodes. Travelling waves have no nodes because there are no boundaries. node https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no7ZPPq tZEg Video of standing wave on a string: