Mar 21, 1997 · The animation at left shows a wave pulse on a string moving from left to right towards the end which is rigidly clamped. As the wave pulse approaches the fixed end, the internal restoring …

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When a wave reaches a boundary and needs to move into a more rigid medium, some of the wave energy reflects back into the original medium. The animation above shows an example of a wave …

Waves in a string are discussed in this support page to the multimedia chapter Travelling Waves in the volume Waves and Sound. It gives background information and further details on equations, linear …

This is a visual simulation of the reflection of a wave pulse. Use the check boxes choose between a fixed end (bouncing off a more rigid medium) or a free end (bouncing off a less rigid medium).

See the next animation. Sine Wave Plus a Partial Reflection: Now we decompose the partial reflection into a standing wave component and a forward traveling wave.

Animation depicting the reflection and transmission of longitudinal waves. In this finite element simulation, the body is discretised into smaller, manageable elements, allowing for the application of …

The reflection and refraction of waves at a series of different boundaries are shown in the following diagrams. (For the present diffraction effects have been ignored.)

The animation below depicts a pulse moving through a medium which is free to move at its end. The animation depicts a boundary behavior phenomenon. The pulse reflects off the free end and returns …

In this post I'd like to share how the above animations were created as well as the physics of the above phenomenon.