Reflection and Transmission of Waves
The fixed peg means when the pulse wave goes to peg, it exerts an upwards force, and due to the third law, the peg exerts a downwards force which creates the inverted wave.
A wall or rigid support can be thought of as an extremely heavy section in which little is transmitted and most is reflected
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