Hints:
- Stop the animation at a convenient time, and measure the peak-to-peak
separation on the horizontal grid. This distance is the wavelength, l, in
meters.
- Let the animation run and choose a single point along the wave's path
(e.g. the point x = 0). Try to determine how long it takes
between one crest and the next striking that point. This time is called the
period, T, in seconds.
- The inverse of the period, 1/T, is the frequency, f, in Hz.
- Finally, choose one point on the wave (e.g. one particular wave
crest) to follow, and measure how far that point moves in a particular
time interval. In this way, you determine the wave's speed, v, in
m/s.
- According to the theory of traveling waves, how should these three
quantities (l, f and v) be related mathematically? Do your results confirm this
relationship?
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