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agabwagawa OP t1_jbtuxr1 wrote
Reply to comment by superbob201 in When a wave travels goes from a higher impedance medium to a lower impedance medium, why would that cause a reflected wave? by agabwagawa
So when going from a high impedance medium to a low impedance medium, shouldn’t all that energy be transmitted into the particle motion? How can a reflected wave be generated?
agabwagawa OP t1_jc0x978 wrote
Reply to comment by jellyfixh in When a wave travels goes from a higher impedance medium to a lower impedance medium, why would that cause a reflected wave? by agabwagawa
Got it! So the reflected wave at an interface going from high to low impedance just has a lower intensity than it would if it hit gone from low to high, but the reflected wave is the same frequency as the incident.