If a point of a medium is fixed, that is if it can't change its physical state, the energy can't overstep it so there can't be flux of energy through it.
To simplify the understanding of this phenomenon, we may consider one-dimensional waves as, for example, those on the strings of musical instruments. The extremities of these strings are fixed to the frame of the instrument, they cannot oscillate like the other points of the string, so their energy is constantly null and there's no flow of energy through them.
Like a particle hitting a hard wall with speed perpendicular to the wall itself, the wave reverses its speed, spreads in the opposite direction, hits the other end by which it is again reflected and so on.
Progressive waves and regressive waves mutually interfere. The result is an interference figure, called standing (or stationary) wave, with nodes at the ends of the string and, possibly, other nodes equidistant from each other. This result implies that the length of the string must exactly contain an integer number of half-wavelengths.
Let L be the length of a string and λ the wavelength
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If a string (and, in general, any other elastic medium) carries a standing wave, each of its points behaves like an harmonic oscillator. These oscillators have equal angular frequencies ω but different amplitudes, depending on their distance from the extremities. If we let 0 and L be the positions of the extremities, with a convenient choice of the time origin, the physical state of a point P, at position x between 0 and L, is described by the equation
in which the amplitude C sin kx must be 0 when x is multiple of the half-wavelength and, in particular, when it is equal to the half-wavelength:
Therefore we have
The (5.4) is the equation of the n-th standing wave on one-dimensional medium with length L and with nodes at its ends.
The constant C depends on the total energy
owned by the medium.
If we call μ the linear density of a one-dimensional medium
from (3.9) the energy of a particle with mass dm swinging with angular frequency ω and amplitude A results
In (5.4) the amplitude is 
, therefore
The sum of the energies of all the particles of the medium coincides with the total energy owned by the medium
The last expression of C2, used in (5.5), gives
and finally
(5.8) shows that the relative amount of energy located between x e x+dx is proportional to the square of
that is: the energy density at the position x is given by the square of ψn.
Therefore the square of ψn represents the energy density distribution along the axis x.
(5.9) is independent from μ, so it is a general property of the waves.
So if we let
and substitute this value in (5.4)
we obtain the equation of the n-th stationary wave, which can be carried by a one-dimensional medium with length L, normalized so that the square of its amplitude would represent the energy density.
More simply the equation (5.11) may be written
with
