Question

What is a travelling wave and a standing wave? What are the differences between both of them?

Answer 1

What is a travelling wave and a standing wave? What are the differences between both of them?

Answer: First of all we have to understand that a traveling wave is an organized disturbance traveling with a well defined wave speed. On the other hand standing waves are the combination of period waves with their reflected waves creating double sided waves. The differences between them is that standing waves have nodes and antinodes while a traveling wave does not.

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Answer 2

I always hear a difference between transverse and longitudinal waves, and, standing and traveling waves, but for me, transverse and standing waves looks very similar; and i can't seem to find out what is the difference.

both has nodes and antinodes, thus the change in amplitude as you go about the wave, and all the points between 2 nodes are in phase.