Friday, September 7, 2012

Derive the equation for standing wave

This activity was trying to derive the equation λ = vT,
λ is the wavelength
v is the speed of the wave 
and T is the period of the wave.

We were using the long spring to make the wave, and recorded the time it completed one period and the wavelength. We repeated few times with different wavelength and period.

In order to derive the equation, we plotted the graph λ vs. T.
And the result came out successfully same as what we expected.

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