A movie and a graph

Frequency
2 Hz 10 Hz
5
Amplitude
0 mm 20 mm
20
Tension in the string
50 N 200 N
100
Mass per unit length of string
10 g/m 40 g/m
20
Check here to have wave travel left instead of right

Worksheet for this simulation

Simulation updated 1-19-2018 to fix the initial setting of the tension slider

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This work by Andrew Duffy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
This simulation can be found in the collection at http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/classroom.html.

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