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by Dan Russell, at Kettering University in Flint, MI .

http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos/waves/wavemotion.html

One of many excellent animations at Russell's Acoustics and Vibration Animations. This page shows animated gifs of mechanical waves propagate through a material medium. Particle motion for Longitudinal, Transverse, Water and Rayleigh Surface Waves are modeled.



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