Suppose that there is a happy bug in the center of a circular water puddle. The bug…

What happens when two waves meet while they travel through the same medium? What effect…

Previously in Lesson 3, the behavior of waves traveling along a rope from a more dense medium to a…

Boundary Behavior As a wave travels through a medium, it will often reach the end of…

As was discussed in Lesson 1, a wave is produced when a vibrating source periodically disturbs…

A wave is a disturbance that moves along a medium from one end to the other. If…

As mentioned earlier, a wave is an energy transport phenomenon that transports energy along a medium without…

The nature of a wave was discussed in Lesson 1 of this unit. In that lesson, it…

The Anatomy of a Wave A transverse wave is a wave in which the particles of the…

Waves come in many shapes and forms. While all waves share some basic characteristic properties…