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Journal papers
Arcos, E., G. Baez, P. A. Cuatlayol, M. L. H. Prian, R. A. Mendez-Sanchez, and H. hernandez-Saldana (1998), "Vibrating soap films: An analog for quantum chaos on billiards," Am. J. Phys. 66 (7), 601-607.
Awati, K. M. and T. Howes (1996), "Stationary waves on cylindrical fluid jets," Am. J. Phys. 64 (6), 808-811.
Bakman, A., S. Fishman, M. Fink, E. Fort, and S. Wildeman (2019), "Observation of the Talbot effect with water waves," Am. J. Phys. 87(1), 38 - 43.
Barik, T. K., A. Roy, and S. Kar (2005), "A simple experiment on diffraction of light by interfering liquid surface waves," Am. J. Phys. 73(8), 725-729.
Bechhoefer, J. and B. Johnson (1996), "A simple model for Faraday waves," Am. J. Phys. 64 (12), 1482-87.
Bernard, R. (1972), "Interference of two cylindrical waves," AJP 40, 201-202.
Ceperley, P. H. (1992), "Rotating waves," AJP 60, 938-942.
Crawford, F. S. (1973), "Water-wave machine for demonstrating group velocity," Am. J. Phys. 41, 1203-1204.
Curzon, F. L. and B. Neilson (1976), "Tsunamis, sealing wax, and string," AJP 44, 1073-1076.
Delunas, A. and G. Pegna (1981), "Very flexible ripple tank apparatus," AJP 49, 1079-1080.
Fernando, P. C. B. (1975), "A simle ripple tank demonstration of the Doppler effect and the bow shock," AJP 43, 101-102.
Giambo, S., P. Pantano, and P. Tucci (1984), "An electrical model for the Korteweg-de Vries equation," AJP 52, 238-243.
Greene, R. (1977), "Loudspeakers as ripple tank wave generators," AJP 45, 683-684.
Gödney, I., F. J. Kedves, and D. Beke (1977), "Total reflection of light and water waves," AJP 45, 550-553.
Hao, Y. Q., Xie and L. Zhen-di (1988), "A ripple tank demonstration of the conditions for interference of waves," AJP 56, 745-746.
Jacobson, D. M. and B. Z. Kaplan (1978), "A new method for observing steady-state vibrations at liquid-air interfaces," AJP 46, 143-146.
Klein, W. and G. Nagel (1980), "Continuous ripple-tank demonstration of Doppler effect," AJP 48, 498-499.
Klipstein, W. M., J. S. Radnich, and S. K. Lamoreaux (1996), "Thermally excited liquid surface waves and their study through the quasielastic scattering of light," Am. J. Phys. 64 (6), 758-65.
Kruglak, H. (1970), "A versatile, stable, and inexpensive oscillator," Am. J. Phys. 38 (1), 123.
Kruglak, H. (1975), "Electric scissors as a wave generator," AJP 43, 195.
Kruglak, H. (1977), "Making waves with toothbrush and comb," AJP 45, 105.
Kuwabara, G., T. Hasegawa, and K. Kono (1986), "Water waves in a ripple tank," AJP 54, 1002-7.
Likar, A. and N. Razpet (2013), "Towards the Kelvin wake and beyond," Am. J. Phys. 81 (4), 245 - 52.
Pritchett, T. and J. K. Kim (1998), "A low-cost apparatus for the production of surface wave patterns in a vertically oscillating fluid," Am. J. Phys. 66 (9), 830-3.
Rossler, J., C. Rossler, P. Marki, K. Ensslin, and T. Ihn (2015), "Wave physics of the graphene lattice emulated in a ripple tank," Am. J. Phys. 83, 761 - 4.
Stein, T. S. and L. G. Dishman (1982), "Demonstrations of beats as moving interference patterns," Am. J. Phys. 50, 136-145.
Vekstein, G. E. (1998), "Landau resonance mechanism for plasma and wind-generated water waves," Am. J. Phys. 66 (10), 886-92.
Walbridge, N. L. (1971), "Absorption coefficients for plane ripples on deep fluids," AJP 39, 144-145.
Weisbuch, G. and F. Garbay (1979), "Light scattered by surface tension waves," AJP 47, 355-356.
Whitford, D. J., J. K. Waters, and M. E. C. Vieira (2001), "Teaching time-series analysis. II. Wave height and water surface elevation probability distributions," Am. J. Phys. 69 (4), 497-504.
Whitford, D. J., M. E. C. Vieira, and J. K. Waters (2001), "Teaching time-series analysis. I. Finite Fourier analysis of ocean waves," Am. J. Phys. 69 (4), 490-6.
Wu, J. and I. Rudnick (1984), "An upper division student laboratory experiment which measures the velocity dispersion and nonlinear properties of gravitaional surface waves in water," AJP 52, 1008-1010.
de la Madrid, R., A. Gonzalez, and G. M. Irwin (2014), "Gravitational dispersion in a torsional wave machine," Am. J. Phys. 82 (12), 1134 - 41.
Behroozi, F. and N. Podolefsky (2001), "Capillary-gravity waves and the Navier-Stokes equation," Eur. J. Phys. 22 (6), 587-93.
Berry, M. V., R. G. Chambers, M. D. Large, C. Upstill, and J. Walmsey (1980), "Wavefront dislocations in the Aharonov-Bohm effect and its water wave analogue," EJP 1, 154-162.
Finkelstein, Y. and E. Polturak (1993), "Student laboratory experiments on surface waves on water and on the normal density of superfluid helium using a tunnel diode oscillator," EJP 14, 23-28.
Hajnal, J. V., R. H. Templar, and C. Upstill (1984), "A ripple tank for studying optical caustics and diffraction," EJP 5, 81-87.
Martin, A. S., S. J. Lawrence, D. A. Rollett, and J. R. Sambles (1993), "Measurment of a Langmuir monomolecular pressure-area compression isotherm using laser light diffracted from surface capillary waves," EJP 14, 19-22.
Meseguer-Garrido, F. (2003), "On the sloshing of liquids in parallelepiped-shaped containers," Eur. J. Phys. 24 (3), 277-88.
Ogorelec, Z. (1995), "On the shape of a rotating liquid surface," Eur. J. Phys. 16 (6), 256-9.
D'Anna, M. and T. Corridoni (2016), "An old experiment revisited: the Doppler effect in a ripple tank," Eur. J. Phys. (UK) 37 (4), 045703 (11 pp.) .
Ellingsen, S. A. and I. Brevik (2014), "How linear surface waves are affected by a current with constant vorticity," Eur. J. Phys. (UK) 35(2), 025005 (16 pp.) .
Nikolic, D. and L. Nesic (2012), "Determination of surface tension coefficient of liquids by diffraction of light on capillary waves," Eur. J. Phys. (UK) 33 (6), 1677 - 85.
Wei, M., S. Huang, J. Wang, H. Li, H. Yang, and S. Wang (2015), "The study of liquid surface waves with a smartphone camera and an image recognition algorithm," Eur. J. Phys. (UK) 36 (6), 065026 (8 pp.) .
Greenslade, T. B., Jr. (1980), "Apparatus for natural philosophy; 19th century wave machines," Phys. Teach. 18 (7), 510-17.
Davies, G. R. (1988), "Waves via video," Phys. Educ. 23, 59-61.
Jacops, F. (1985), "using an overhead projector to demonstrate wave motion," Phys. Educ. 20, 230-233.
Thepnurat, M., P. Nikonphan, S. Mungkhalad, P. Saphet, K. Supawan, and A. Tong-on (2020), "Using a smartphone application to measure the properties of water waves in the DIY Ripple Tank experiment set," Phys. Educ. 55 (3), 035011 (7 pp.) .
Weiss, M. (1981), "A ripple tank explanation of holography," Phys. Educ. 16, 25-30.
Walker, J. (1984), "The amateur scientist: edge waves form a spokelike pattern when vibrations are set up in a liquid," Sci. Am. 250 (12), 130-138.