Wave Motion
G3-46: STANDING WAVES IN A WIRE LOOP
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Illustrate circular standing waves; to use as a model of stationary states in atoms corresponding to standing waves of electrons in Bohr orbits.
G3-45: RESONANCE OF WIRES
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Show standing waves in heavy wires fixed at one end.
G3-42: TORSIONAL WAVES
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate wave phenomena such as traveling waves, standing waves, and reflection of waves.
G3-41: WAVE MODELS - PROJECTION
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate standing waves, travelling waves, and superposition of waves.
G3-29: SUSPENDED SLINKY - PORTABLE
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Show longitudinal and transverse traveling waves and standing waves.
G3-27: AIR TABLE - TRANSVERSE AND LONGITUDINAL WAVES
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate transverse and longitudinal waves using an air table.
G3-26: AIR TRACK - LONGITUDINAL WAVES
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate longitudinal waves with a series of spring-coupled air track gliders.
G3-25: SLINKY ON LECTURE TABLE - IMPEDANCE MISMATCH
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Show partial reflections and dependence of wave speed on density of the medium.
G3-24: SLINKY ON LECTURE TABLE - TRAVELING WAVES
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Show travelling waves.
G3-23: TRANSVERSE WAVES ON A LONG SPRING - FREE END
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Show reflections at a free end.
G3-11: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - RESONANCE ABSORPTION
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate resonance absorption of wave energy by a mass-on-spring system.
G3-10: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - BRANCHING
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate branching and recombining with two wave machines in parallel.
G3-09: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - FREQUENCY FILTERING
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate frequency filtering through a "filter" consisting of four weighted crossarms and the interference from partial reflections they produce.
G3-08: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - FABREY-PEROT INTERFEROMETER
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate the mechanical analog of the optical Fabrey-Perot interferometer.
G3-07: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - TAPERED TRANSFORMER
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Useful for obtaining a reasonably good impedance match between the two large segments of the Shive machine.
G3-05: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - PARTIAL REFLECTIONS
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Show that a wave will be partially reflected at a point where the impedance changes.
G3-06: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - IMPEDANCE MATCHING
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Show that no reflection occurs when the impedance of the load (absorber at right) matches the impedance of the wave machine.
G3-04: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - STANDING WAVES
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate standing waves.
G3-03: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - REFLECTION OF PULSES
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate reflection of pulses from fixed ends and free ends.
G3-02: SHIVE WAVE MACHINE - SUPERPOSITION OF PULSES
Category: G3 Mechanical Waves - One Dimensional
Purpose:
Demonstrate constructive and destructive interference using pulses.
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G4-02 RIPPLE TANK
Illustrates wave phenomena water surface
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G4-03: RIPPLE TANK - DOPPLER EFFECT
Show how wave fronts crowd together in front of and spread out behind a moving source.
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G4-11: SOAP FILM OSCILLATIONS
Demonstrate standing waves in a two-dimensional medium.
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G4-12: STANDING WAVES ON A SOAP FILM
Demonstrate standing waves in a circular membrane. Read More
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G4-13: DRUM HEAD STANDING WAVES
Demonstrate standing waves in a circular membrane.
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G4-14: SPOUTING BOWL
Demonstrate resonance in a dramatic way
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G4-21: CHLADNI FIGURES - BOWED
Show two-dimensional standing waves in a metal plate
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G4-22: CHLADNI FIGURES - OSCILLATOR DRIVEN
Show two-dimensional standing waves in a metal plate
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G4-31: MOIRE PATTERNS
Show a type of interference pattern.
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G4-32: MOIRE PATTERNS - COLOR
Show color "interference" effects.
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G4-33: GROUP VELOCITY - TRANSPARENCIES
Demonstrate the relationship between the wave velocity and the group velocity
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