Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.)1.The image below shows small ripples, or waves, moving through water in a pond. BOLD the description below that you think describes the motion of a wave most accurately.A.Each wave consists of a set of water molecules moving outward...
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The ripple tank consists of a shallow tray of water with an overhead light source to illuminate the ripples in the water. The light source can be strobed so that the waves are made to look as if they are stationary. 1) Demonstrate parallel wavefronts and their reflection on a variety of differently shaped surfaces.
Any two waves in the same medium undergo wave interference as they pass each other. At the location where the two waves collide, the result is essentially a summation of the two waves. In some places, a wave crest from one source will overlap a wave crest from the other source.
A shallow, one square meter glass-bottomed tank is filled with a couple inches of water. A dipper, suspended from an 8 Ohm speaker driver, is partially submerged. When the driver is driven by a function generator, the dipper causes ripples in the water.
This is because light waves are transverse waves, meaning their oscillations are perpendicular to the direction of energy transfer. When two light waves interfere destructively, their electric fields cancel each other out, resulting in no light (a dark fringe).
This is known as destructive interference. In fact, if the two waves (with the same amplitude) are shifted by exactly half a wavelength when they merge together, then the crest of one wave will match up perfectly with the trough of the other wave, and they will cancel each other out.
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Dragging neighbouring water molecules up and down is hard work, and slowly uses up energy, so the ripples get smaller as they get further away. Eventually, the ripples use up all the energy from the rock and the splash, and shrink until we can no longer see them.
Ripples may be generated by a piece of wood that is suspended above the tank on elastic bands so that it is just touching the surface. Screwed to wood is a motor that has an off center weight attached to the axle. As the axle rotates the motor wobbles, shaking the wood and generating ripples.
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