File:Reflection at fixed and free string ends.gif

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Reflection_at_fixed_and_free_string_ends.gif ‎(360 × 223 pixels, file size: 533 KB, MIME type: image/gif, looped, 181 frames)

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English: Reflection of a transverse wave on a string at free and at fixed ends. The red wave is a "mirror image" of the incident wave.
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This diagram was created with Mathematica.

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wave[g_] := -g *Exp[-g^2] 

sinemovie = 
 Table[Plot[{wave[x - t] + wave[x + t] + 1.0, wave[x - t] - wave[x + t] - 1.0}, {x, -2 \[Pi], \[Pi]}, 
   PlotRange -> 1.9, PlotStyle -> Thick, Mesh -> {Range[0, 0, Pi/4]}, 
   MeshStyle -> PointSize[Large], MeshShading -> {Blue, Red}, 
   Axes -> False], {t, -9, 9, 0.1}]

Export["sinemovie.gif", sinemovie]

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current15:01, 22 January 2010Thumbnail for version as of 15:01, 22 January 2010360 × 223 (533 KB)Pieter Kuiper (talk | contribs)For consistency with the double-pulse version
13:40, 22 January 2010Thumbnail for version as of 13:40, 22 January 2010360 × 223 (532 KB)Pieter Kuiper (talk | contribs){{Information |Description={{en|1=Reflection of a transverse wave on a string at free and at fixed ends. The red wave is a "mirror image" of the incident wave.}} |Source={{own}} |Author=Pieter Kuiper |Date=2010-01-22 |Permission={{P

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