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Does a 5th harmonic standing wave have five nodes, or five antipodes

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The amount of nodes of an n-th harmonic standing wave is:


n+1

On the other hand, the number of antinodes of an n-th harmonic standing wave, is:


n

Therefore, a 5th harmonic standing wave has 5 antinodes and 6 nodes.

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