Standing Wave

[silverice]

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standing wave exhibits the asme behavior as a simple harmonic oscillator.

This is not intuitive at all. Since the MCAT it's all about intuition of a concept, can someone please explain the statement above.

 

[chiddler]

think of how one specific point of a wave moves. up, down, up, down...this is the definition of a wave, right?

if you graph movement of an object in SHM, what does the graph look like? up, down, up, down..

 

[MedPR]

standing wave exhibits the asme behavior as a simple harmonic oscillator.
This is not intuitive at all. Since the MCAT it's all about intuition of a concept, can someone please explain the statement above.

A standing wave is just a simple harmonic wave that appears to be one consistant wave. It is intuitive because all of the waves are exactly the same, so you can examine just one to simplify it.

 

[silverice]

think of how one specific point of a wave moves. up, down, up, down...this is the definition of a wave, right?

if you graph movement of an object in SHM, what does the graph look like? up, down, up, down..

Yeah, I forgot about how millions of points made up the wave! thx!

 

[silverice]

A standing wave is just a simple harmonic wave that appears to be one consistant wave. It is intuitive because all of the waves are exactly the same, so you can examine just one to simplify it.

Thank you, you showed me a different perspective