Traveling and Standing Waves
Since sine waves propagate without changing form in distributed linear systems, they are often used to analyze wave propagation. Sine waves traveling in two directions can be represented as
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When two waves having the same amplitude and frequency, and traveling in opposite directions, superpose each other, then a standing wave pattern is created.
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