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sophiecentaur said:Whatever direction the displacement takes place in, you can still get a resultant when two waves coincide. I think your diagrams may be confusing wave fronts with displacement.
You can use pressure (which corresponds to displacement) or speed (average speed, if it's a gas). The pressure max will be at a velocity min, of course. You can still do the sums but it's normal to consider displacement as it's zero at a wall.
Wavefronts are point on a wave that join up all adjacent points.
Displacement is the maximum distance traveled from resting point.
On my diagram, the point between two lines represents the distance between two new waves - ah I see why I got confused!
How then would I draw a displacement graph for a longitudinal wave or does this not exist?