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Acceleration-Wave Simulation

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Initial conditions for the ideal plucked string: acceleration or curvature waves.

Recall:

$\displaystyle \zbox{ y''= \frac{1}{c^2}{\ddot y}}
$

Acceleration waves are proportional to ``curvature'' waves.


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``Elementary Digital Waveguide Models for Vibrating Strings'', by Julius O. Smith III and Nelson Lee,
REALSIMPLE Project — work supported by the Wallenberg Global Learning Network .
Released 2008-06-05 under the Creative Commons License (Attribution 2.5), by Julius O. Smith III and Nelson Lee
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