Though ocean waves have a predominant direction, in the open ocean, waveforms from other directions can arrive. In rare conditions, those waves arrive in an organized way or almost in phase, leading ...

We head back to the recording studio to study interference and diffraction of sound waves. We investigate qualitatively how diffraction affects sound waves of various frequencies. We also explore how ...

James Buckwalter, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering, invented the amplifier and named it the Cascaded ...

We visit a university orchestra to help us understand wave interference and how resonance affects waves moving through different types of air columns and strings. We explore how to find various ...