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Excellent waves

Today I was preparing some material for my next workshop in Berlin and thought I'd play around with using excel for simulating physical phenomena. It's not my favourite tool but I managed to make this neat simulation of two waves adding to produce a standing wave. Took me ages to work out how to animate it but found a very simple way in the end.

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