Equipment in this category is used to study the types of waves, wave travel through various media, and wave behaviors.
Examples of this type of equipment are:
- ripple tank wave generator
- polarized film
- prisms
- tuning forks
- slinky springs
- wave motion ropes
- laser pointer
- resonance tube
Below you will find two video links showing labs studying wave motion.
Source: Physics Lab Demo 14: Ripple Tank, CarletonPhysics, YouTube
- What types of equipment from the list above did you see?
- Describe what you saw in the video. What type of information do you think they could possibly investigate in a lab?
Now watch the video link about waves below.
Joy Physics - exp #14 Slinky Waves,Art Wiggins, YouTube
In your notes, answer the following:
- What types of equipment from the list above did you see?
- Describe what you saw in the video. What type of information do you think they could possibly investigate in a lab?