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Wave Motion


G1-83: PENDULUM WAVES - COMMERCIAL VERSION

Purpose: Create waves in a very dramatic way using a series of carefully adjusted pendula of various lengths.

G1-82: PENDULUM WAVES

Purpose: Create waves in a very dramatic way using a series of fifteen carefully adjusted independent pendula.

G4-33: GROUP VELOCITY - TRANSPARENCIES

Purpose: Demonstrate the relationship between the wave velocity and the group velocity

G4-32: MOIRE PATTERNS - COLOR

Purpose: Show color "interference" effects.

G4-31: MOIRE PATTERNS

Purpose: Show a type of interference pattern.

G4-22: CHLADNI FIGURES - OSCILLATOR DRIVEN

Purpose: Show two-dimensional standing waves in a metal plate

G4-21: CHLADNI FIGURES - BOWED

Purpose: Show two-dimensional standing waves in a metal plate

G4-14: SPOUTING BOWL

Purpose: Demonstrate resonance in a dramatic way

G4-13: DRUM HEAD STANDING WAVES

Purpose: Demonstrate standing waves in a circular membrane.

G4-12: STANDING WAVES ON A SOAP FILM

Purpose: Demonstrate standing waves in a circular membrane.

G4-11: SOAP FILM OSCILLATIONS

Purpose: Demonstrate standing waves in a two-dimensional medium.

G4-03: RIPPLE TANK - DOPPLER EFFECT

Purpose: Show how wave fronts crowd together in front of and spread out behind a moving source.

H4-34: GUITAR AND OSCILLOSCOPE

Category: H4 Music

Purpose: Illustrate how a guitar works

H2-11: SOUND LENS

Purpose: Demonstrate focusing of sound by refraction in a sound lens

H2-52: BEATS AND RESONANCE - TUNING BARS

Purpose: To demonstrate beats, and to demonstrate resonance between two identical tuning bar resonators.

H4-11 SAVART'S DISCS

Category: H4 Music

Purpose: Demonstrates the relationship of pitch and musical intervals to mechanical vibration frequency

H3-71 STROKED ALUMINUM ROD

Purpose: Illustrates longitudinal standing waves in an aluminum rod.

H3-61 BEAKER BREAKER

Purpose: Breaks a glass beaker with sound

H3-24 OPEN AND CLOSED PIPES

Purpose: Demonstrates open and closed tube standing resonances

H3-17 FLAME TUBE

Purpose: Demonstrates standing waves in a tube
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