A wave: shaking beads on a string

Added by David Fairhurst on Feb 6, 2008

An interactive animation illustrating a transverse wave. Click the arrow button to play the animation. Move the slider up and down to observe the beads oscillating as the waves travels along the string. Click the arrow button again to reset the animation.

This resource is from the unit What are Waves? which is part of Absorb Advanced Physics.

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