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![]() ![]() It is this characteristic that has earned the pattern the name standing wave.Ī standing wave is established upon a vibrating string using a harmonic oscillator and a frequency generator. When a standing wave pattern is established in a medium, the nodes and the antinodes are always located at the same position along the medium they are standing still. The nodes and antinodes are labeled on the diagram. The animation shown below depicts a rope vibrating with a standing wave pattern. A standing wave pattern always consists of an alternating pattern of nodes and antinodes. In a sense, these points are the opposite of nodes, and so they are called antinodes. These are the points that undergo the maximum displacement during each vibrational cycle of the standing wave. There are other points along the medium that undergo vibrations between a large positive and large negative displacement. These points, sometimes described as points of no displacement, are referred to a s nodes. One characteristic of every standing wave pattern is that there are points along the medium that appear to be standing still. A standing wave pattern is not actually a wave rather it is the pattern resulting from the presence of two waves of the same frequency with different directions of travel within the same medium. It is formed as the result of the perfectly timed interference of two waves passing through the same medium. As mentioned earlier in Lesson 4, a standing wave pattern is an interference phenomenon. ![]()
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