Timeline
0.00 s
Live measurements
- Wave speed
- 8.00 m/s
- Period
- 0.50 s
- Angular frequency
- 12.6 rad/s
- Wave number
- 1.57 rad/m
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
Reviewed starting statesCurriculum 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.