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Also Known As	stationary wave

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fixed nodes in a standing wave

first three harmonic standing waves in a stretched string

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node Kundt’s tube antinode end correction loop velocity node velocity antinode pressure node pressure antinode interference electromagnetic radiation sound wave Gravitational wave seismic wave longitudinal wave transverse wave bow wave radio wave elastic wave

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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

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