1 / 15

Understanding Waves: Types, Characteristics, and Applications in Physics

This chapter explores the nature of waves as traveling disturbances that carry energy. It discusses two primary types: transverse and longitudinal waves, illustrating concepts with examples such as Slinky experiments and electromagnetic waves. Key characteristics of waves, including amplitude, wavelength, frequency, and period are defined. The text explains how these properties relate to wave speed and provides real-world applications, such as radio waves and sound. Understanding these fundamental concepts is crucial for comprehending various physical phenomena.

valin
Download Presentation

Understanding Waves: Types, Characteristics, and Applications in Physics

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Waves and Sound Chapter 16

  2. 16.1 The Nature of Waves A Wave: • Traveling disturbance • Carries energy from place to place Two Different Types: • Transverse • Longitudinal

  3. Slinky • If the end is jerked up and down, an upward pulse is sent traveling toward the right. • If the end is then jerked down, a downward pulse is generated and also moves to the right.

  4. Transverse Wave • Wave in which the disturbance occurs perpendicular to the direction of travel of the wave. Ex. Radio waves, light waves, microwaves, guitars and banjo strings

  5. Longitudinal Wave • The disturbance occurs parallel to the line of travel of the wave. • Ex. Sound wave

  6. Transverse and Longitudinal • Some waves have both. • Water waves • Particles at the surface move on nearly circular paths.

  7. 16.2 Periodic Waves • Transverse and longitudinal waves are types of periodic waves. • Cycles or patterns that are produced over and over again by the source. • Cycle: • AmplitudeA: maximum excursion of a particle of the medium from the particle’s undisturbed position. Distance between a crest, or highest point on the wave pattern, distance between a trough, or lowest point on the wave pattern. • Wavelength: horizontal length of one cycle of the wave, horizontal distance between two successive crests.

  8. Period T: time required for one complete up/down cycle, just as it is for an object vibrating on a spring. Time required to travel one wavelength.Frequency: cycles per second or Hertz Hz

  9. Example Ex. One cycle of a wave takes one-tenth of a second to pass an observer, then ten cycles pass the observer per second. F = 1/(0.1s) = 10 cycles/s = 10 Hz

  10. Train example • Fig 16.6 • Train moves by at a constant speed v. The train consists of a long line of identical boxcars, each of which has a length and requires a time T to pass, so the speed is v = /T Same equation applies for a wave and relates the speed of the wave to the wavelength and the period T. Since the frequency of a wave is f = 1/T, the expression for the speed is

  11. Example 1: The Wavelengths of Radio Waves • AM and FM radio waves are transverse waves consisting of electric and magnetic disturbances traveling at a speed of 3.00 x 10^8 m/s. A station broadcasts an AM radio wave whose frequency is 1230 x 10^3 Hz (1230 kHz on the dial) and an FM radio wave whose frequency is 91.9 x 10^6 Hz (91.9 MHz on the dial). Find the distance between adjacent crests in each wave.

  12. The distance between adjacent crests is the wavelength . Since the speed of each waves is v = 3.00 x 10^8 m/s and the frequencies are known, the relation v = f can be used to determine the wavelengths.

  13. Slinky Experiment HOMEWORK Pg. 504 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  14. Terminology Crest: the top of a wave Trough: the bottom of a wave Amplitude: how far the material is displaced from rest (from crest to trough) Wavelength: the length of one full wave (between two identical points, like two crests) Speed: how fast the wave moves Frequency: how many waves there are in a certain amount of time.

More Related