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Travelling Wave Explorer — Interactive Physics | StudyVector

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PhysicsA-Level7 minBeta

Travelling Wave Explorer

Animate a transverse wave, mark one oscillating particle and connect amplitude, wavelength, frequency, period and wave speed.

Model presets

Authored starting states

StudyVector model lab

Waveform scope

Model inputs: 4 inputs
Visible model layers: 4/4 layers
Model state: State-linked

Timeline

0.00 s

Live model readout

Updates with every input

Wave speed: 8.00 m/s
Period: 0.50 s
Angular frequency: 12.6 rad/s
Wave number: 1.57 rad/m

Curriculum map

OCR A-Level Physics
Waves and quantum physics → Wave properties, superposition and interference
AQA GCSE Physics
Waves → Transverse and longitudinal wave properties

Model boundaries

The wave is sinusoidal, progressive and travels in the positive x-direction.
Amplitude, wavelength and frequency remain constant across the medium.
Energy losses, dispersion and reflections are ignored.

StudyVector-authored progressive-wave model using y = A sin(kx − ωt + φ); mapped to the reviewed curriculum topics shown below.

Accessible text description

A displacement-distance graph shows a transverse sinusoidal wave travelling to the right. A vertical marker tracks one medium particle oscillating around the equilibrium line. Dimension lines mark amplitude and one wavelength. A timeline moves the profile while numerical outputs report wave speed, period, angular frequency and wave number.