Introduction to Vibration and Waves

Introduction

Basically, anything that moves back and forth, side to side, or up and down is vibrating.

A vibration is a periodic wiggle in time. Periodic means the pattern repeats itself with time.
A wave is a periodic wiggle in both space (distance) and time, and
a wave is a moving vibration.

Examples of water waves and loudspeaker vibrations are illustrated below:

Water Waves

Another example of wave is light where an electromagnetic wave that needs no medium to travel.

We need to note the following:

Vibration: wiggle in time
Wave: wiggle in time and space (distance)

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