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A disturbance or variation that transfers energy progressively from one point to another

point of medium without actual transfer of medium

The most important part of this definition is that a wave is a disturbance or variation which
travels through a medium. The medium through which the wave travels may experience
some local oscillations as the wave passes, but the particles in the medium do not travel
with the wave. The disturbance may take any of a number of shapes, from a finite width
pulse to an infinitely long sine wave.
A disturbance or variation that transfers energy progressively from one point to another
point of medium without actual transfer of medium

The most important part of this definition is that a wave is a disturbance or variation which
travels through a medium. The medium through which the wave travels may experience
some local oscillations as the wave passes, but the particles in the medium do not travel
with the wave. The disturbance may take any of a number of shapes, from a finite width
pulse to an infinitely long sine wave.
The principle of superposition is applied to waves whenever two (or more) waves travelling
through the same medium at the same time.
The waves pass through each other without being disturbed.
The net displacement of the medium at any point in space or time, is simply the vector sum
of the individual wave displacements.
An organ pipe is a sound-producing element of the pipe organ that resonates at a specific
pitch when pressurized air (commonly referred to as wind) is driven through it.
A resonance tube (a hollow cylindrical tube) is partially filled with water and forced into
vibration by a tuning fork. The tuning fork is the object that forced the air inside of the
resonance tube into resonance. As the tines of the tuning fork vibrate at their own natural
frequency, they created sound waves that impinge upon the opening of the resonance
tube. These impinging sound waves produced by the tuning fork force air inside of the
resonance tube to vibrate at the same frequency. Yet, in the absence of resonance, the
sound of these vibrations is not loud enough to discern. Resonance only occurs when the
first object is vibrating at the natural frequency of the second object.

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