Musical instruments and throats create different notes by making the air around them vibrate at particular frequencies (check out part one to find out how they do it). When you pluck the A string on a ...

A wave phenomenon resulting from the interference of soundwaves of the same frequency and kind travelling in opposite directions. Such waves are characterized by the absence of propagation and the ...

Standing waves are involved in various fundamental, natural phenomena over a wide range of scales, that is, from electron orbitals to planetary oscillations. Interactions between standing waves and ...