Vibrations and Wave Tutorial Models

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The Vibrations and Wave Tutorial Models demonstrate how the superposition principle gives rise to wave phenomena, such as standing waves and beats. The five models cataloged in this item demonstrate:

simple harmonic motion,
history graphs,
standing waves,
standing waves on an infinite string, and
beats.

You can modify these simulations if you have Ejs installed by right-clicking within the plot and selecting "Open Ejs Model" from the pop-up menu item.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.6 of Java (JRE).

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Published: August 10, 2014
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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Oscillations & Waves - Oscillations = Simple Harmonic Motion = Springs and Oscillators - Wave Motion = Beats = Phase and Group Velocity = Standing Waves = Transverse Pulses and Waves	- Lower Undergraduate - High School - Upper Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation

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Access Rights:: Free access
License:: This material is released under a GNU General Public License Version 3 license.
Rights Holder:: Spencer Wheaton
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created August 11, 2014 by Wolfgang Christian
Record Updated:: August 16, 2014 by Wolfgang Christian
Last Update when Cataloged:: August 10, 2014
Other Collections:: The Open Source Physics

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AAAS Benchmark Alignments (2008 Version)

4. The Physical Setting

4F. Motion

6-8: 4F/M4. Vibrations in materials set up wavelike disturbances that spread away from the source. Sound and earthquake waves are examples. These and other waves move at different speeds in different materials.
6-8: 4F/M7. Wave behavior can be described in terms of how fast the disturbance spreads, and in terms of the distance between successive peaks of the disturbance (the wavelength).
9-12: 4F/H6ab. Waves can superpose on one another, bend around corners, reflect off surfaces, be absorbed by materials they enter, and change direction when entering a new material. All these effects vary with wavelength.

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