Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Water waves lab

        In science class we did a lab and we explored a simulator to investigate how do water waves travel and the effects of it.
 What have I learned from the simulator is that the higher the frequency or the speed of the drop, the wave is shorter and the wavelength is shorter.You can then guess that the lower the amplitude, the higher the wave is and the wavelength is longer.
         When the amplitude or the size of the wave is lower, the waves are smaller. That small that they disappear in a certain level of amplitude. This means that the wavelength is 0. When the amplitude is higher the waves were, of course, higher much higher. The wavelength was again, obviously bigger.
          To conclude, the waves are mostly affected by the frequency and the amplitude of  the water. If the drops were smaller than the waves are smaller. The bigger the drops, the higher the waves are. For the frequency, when it is higher, the waves are bigger. When the frequency is lower, the waves are smaller.



Here is the link to the simulation: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/wave-interference

1 comment:

  1. Good, what were your observations from the lab and simulation? Which one was the most helpful to understand the properties of waves?

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