Wave Machine Model is a wave machine simulation. Wave Machine model simulates the wave machine produced by John Shive at Bell Laboratories and made famous by the PSSC Simple Waves film. The machine consists of horizontal bars welded to a torsion rod that is perpendicular to the bars. The simulation allows the user to change the lengths of the bars, thereby simulating the effect of a wave propagating in a non-uniform medium.

The simulation allows various pulse shapes to be sent down the machine by selecting a function for the twist of the first rod or by dragging the first rod. For example, applying a Gaussian twist produces a Gaussian traveling pulse but the width of this pulse depends on the wave speed. The far end of the wave machine can be free or clamped and this changes the nature of the reflected wave.

The Wave Machine model simulates the wave machine produced by John Shive at Bell Laboratories and made famous by the PSSC Simple Waves film.?The machine consists of n horizontal bars with moment of inertia In?welded to a torsion rod that is perpendicular to the bars.The simulation allows the user to change the lengths of the bars, thereby simulating the effect of a wave propagating in a non-uniform medium. The default bar of length L=2 has a moment of inertia of one.?The maximum allowed bar length is 4 giving a moment of inertia of 4 and the minimum allowed length is 1/2 giving a moment of inertia of 1/16.

Requirements:
* Java

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this graphing software.