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    Description Illustration of a standing wave in a cavity resonator. Mathematically, this also represents a vibration mode of a rectangular drum or membrane.
    Date (UTC)
    Source self-made with MATLAB
    Author Oleg Alexandrov
    GIF development
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     This diagram was created with MATLAB.

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    Source code (MATLAB)

    % illustration of a standing wave in two dimensions
    
    % box size
    Lx = 3; 
    Ly = 4; 
    
    h= 0.1; % grid size
    [X, Y] = meshgrid(0:h:Lx, 0:h:Ly);
    
    numP_x = 2; numP_y = 3; % number of peaks in x and y
    
    Z=0.5*sin(2*pi*numP_x*X/Lx).*sin(2*pi*numP_y*Y/Ly);
    
    % normalize from 0 to scale
    scale = 0.5;
    %Z = Z - min(min(Z));
    %Z = Z/max(max(Z));
    
    M=11;
    T=linspace(0.0, 2*pi, M); T=T(1:(M-1)); T = T + 0.5*pi/(M-1);
    shift = 1;
    
    for p=1:1
       for iter=1:length(T)
    
          %figure(1); clf; hold on;
    
          t = T(iter);
    
          figure(1); clf;  hold on;
          surf(X, Y, Z*cos(t));
          caxis([-1, 1]);
          shading faceted;
          colormap autumn;
    
          
          axis equal; axis off;
          axis([0, Lx, 0, Ly, -1, 1]);
    
          % viewing angle
          view(38, 42);
    
          %H=text(0, -0.3, 1.4, sprintf('(%d, %d) mode', k, p), 'fontsize', 25);
          %image(scale*((Z*sin(t)+shift)));
          %axis equal; axis xy;
          %axis off;
    
          file=sprintf('Frame%d.png', 1000+iter);
          disp(sprintf('Saving to %s', file));
          print('-dpng',  '-zbuffer',  '-r100', file);
          pause(0.2);
          
       end
    
    end
    
    % saved to gif with the command
    % convert -density 100 -loop 1000 -delay 20 Frame1* Two_dim_standing_wave.gif
    % then cropped and scaled in Gimp.
    

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    Helmholtz resonator

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