PHYSICAClass 11 Physics simulations · Waves
Superposition of two waves
Add two travelling waves and watch the resultant form.
What to notice
Where crests meet they reinforce; a crest over a trough cancels.
Key relation
y = y₁ + y₂
Try this
Shift the phase to 180° for cancellation.
What you can change
- Amplitude 1: 0.2 to 2
- Amplitude 2: 0.2 to 2
- Phase of wave 2: 0 to 360 °
More in Waves
- Beats: two notes, one pulsing sound
- Doppler effect
- Open and closed organ pipes
- Pulse reflection at a boundary
- Resonance tube: speed of sound
- Ripple tank: two-source interference
- Sonometer: frequency and length
- Standing waves on a string
- Wave speed on a stretched rope
- Travelling wave
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