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How are you able to go up or down a "harmonic" in order to increase or decrease the numberof complete waves in a standing wave?tandin wave? How many waves are in a

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2)

Waves can interfere constructively or destructively.

The points where a wave doesn't move are called nodes, and the wave interference at those points is destructive.

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A standing wave with minimum energy is created at a fundamental frequency f_1, and we can go up or down a harmonic by increasing or decreasing the frequency by discrete amounts of size f_1:

Each "loop" acounts for half a wave.

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Following the explanation given for the 3rd question, a 3-rd harmonic standing wave contains 1.5 complete waves, while a 6-th harmonic standing wave contains 3 complete waves.

How are you able to go up or down a "harmonic" in order to increase or decrease-example-1
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