New posts in Waves

How to imagine the electromagnetic waves?

Why aren't the lengths of the bars on a toy glockenspiel proportional to the wavelengths?

Why are the harmonics of a piano tone not multiples of the base frequency?

What is a standing wave?

The speed of sound is a single value yet the speed of atoms is distributed over many values. Does the sound wave front smear out?

Why is a wave pulse a superposition of sine waves?

What exactly is meant by the wavelength of a photon?

Why do you only hear the bass when someone nearby is wearing earphones?

Why does the frequency of a wave remain constant?

Why does the sun have to be nearly fully covered to notice any darkening in an eclipse?