Theme C: Wave behaviour
IB Physics C.4 Standing waves and resonance: practice questions and video explanations
How standing waves form on strings and in pipes, harmonics, natural frequency, forced oscillations, resonance and damping.
SL and HL
What you need to know for C.4 Standing waves and resonance
- Explain the formation of standing waves by superposition
- Locate nodes and antinodes and find harmonics on strings and in pipes
- Describe natural frequency, forced oscillation and resonance
- Compare light, critical and heavy damping
C.4 Standing waves and resonance questions in the question bank
- Exam-style questions
- 12
- Multiple choice (Paper 1A style)
- 9
- Structured (Paper 1B and 2 style)
- 3
- Free to try
- 1
Every question has a mark scheme. Multiple-choice answers are marked instantly, and for structured questions you open the mark scheme part by part and award yourself the marks you earned. Most questions also have a step-by-step video explanation presented by an IB teacher or a former IB student.
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