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Sven Bjorc
Feb 7, 2006, 06:53 PM
We are given 2 wave equations as follows:

y1 = 25 sin(wt - pi/4)
y2 = 15 sin(wt - pi/6)

wt=omega * time

Find the resultant amplitude, phase, and equation for the wave based on the superposition principle. The 2 equations above have the same frequency. Any help would be great. Thanks

McNuggy@LMC
Feb 8, 2006, 01:56 AM
Somebody answer this question cause I need to know this as well!! :D

Captain Outrageous
Feb 10, 2006, 02:11 PM
This link might help.

http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos/superposition/superposition.html