Mechanical Engineering

As mentioned earlier in Lesson 4, standing wave patterns are wave patterns produced in a medium when…

As mentioned earlier in Lesson 4, a standing wave pattern is an interference phenomenon. It is…

A standing wave pattern is a vibrational pattern created within a medium when the vibrational frequency of…

Traveling Waves vs. Standing Waves A mechanical wave is a disturbance that is created by…

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…