Physics & Astronomy

BYU Acoustics Research Group

Acoustics Animations - Simple Sources

More to come.

Monopole

Below is an animation of a vibrating sphere. The dots that surround it represent the particles of air. There is no dependence of the particle motion on the angle. You can observe wave fronts as the particles condense in outwardly propagating circles. A wavelength may be visualized as the distance between two circles of condensed particles.

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