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Longitudinal Waves

Longitudinal and Transverse Waves Simulation

Click "Go" to make the blue rectangle oscillate horizontally. Its frequency and amplitude are set by values entered into the text boxes below the diagram. As the blue rectangle oscillates it produces a horizontal longitudinal wave and a vertical transverse wave.

At any stage you can click the check boxes to display an undisturbed horizontal medium, links to the moving medium and a graph of the medium's displacement versus position along the horizontal direction.

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Show undisturbed medium

Show links    Show graph

0.1 ≤ Frequency ≤ 1.0 Hz   0.5 Hz

0.5 ≤ Amplitude ≤ 5.0   3.0

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