Standing Waves applet

This applet will help you understand the displacement and pressure graphs of sound waves in pipes. It shows a graph along with an animation of the air molecules in the pipe.

Download

To download this applet, save pipe-waves.html and pipe-waves.jar into the same folder.
Then, open pipe-waves.html to use the applet.

References

Standing Longitudinal Waves

The original applet created by Walter Fendt. My version adds graph animation and the option of graphing either displacement or pressure.

Robert Hart
Sept. 18, 2003