Standing Wave -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Standing Wave

A standing wave is a wave which oscillates but does not propagate. The simplest case is produced by a superposition of two sinusoidal waves of the same frequency traveling in opposite directions

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(2)

Their sum is then
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Fundamental, Harmonic, Overtone, Traveling Wave, Wave Superposition


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