Force or Pressure Waves at a Rigid Termination
To find out how force or pressure waves recoil from a rigid termination, we may convert velocity waves to force or velocity waves by means of the Ohm's law relations of Eq.(6.6) for strings (or Eq.(6.7) for acoustic tubes), and then use Eq.(6.12), and then Eq.(6.6) again:
Thus, force (and pressure) waves reflect from a rigid termination with no sign inversion:7.3
The reflections from a rigid termination in a digital-waveguide acoustic-tube simulation are exactly analogous:
Waveguide terminations in acoustic stringed and wind instruments are never perfectly rigid. However, they are typically passive, which means that waves at each frequency see a reflection coefficient not exceeding 1 in magnitude. Aspects of passive ``yielding'' terminations are discussed in §C.11.
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