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Name: Understanding Wave Jargon; Building Waves on Strings Intuition
ID: m13513
Language: English (en)
Summary: In this module, we will present an animation along with several questions and exercises to familiarize one with the terms associated with waves (ie. frequency, amplitude). Furthermore, the animation allows one to control waves propagated down a string as well as selecting how the string terminates.
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: amplitude, frequency, rigid, string, strings, termination, wave, waves
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: Nelson Lee (nelsonapollolee@gmail.com)
Copyright Holders: Nelson Lee (nelsonapollolee@gmail.com)
Maintainers: Nelson Lee (nelsonapollolee@gmail.com)
Latest version: 1.2 (history)
First publication date: Mar 13, 2006 6:40 pm US/Central
Last revision to module: May 1, 2007 12:22 am GMT-5
Module XML: m13513_1.2.cnxml

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Version: 1.2 May 1, 2007 12:22 am GMT-5 by Nelson Lee
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Version: 1.1 Mar 13, 2006 8:01 pm US/Central by Nelson Lee
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