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    Waves can transfer energy without transferring matter. There are two main types of waves: longitudinal waves where the disturbance is parallel to the direction of wave travel, and transverse waves where the disturbance is perpendicular. Key wave properties include speed, wavelength, amplitude, frequency, cycle, period, and wavefront. The ripple tank experiment demonstrates how waves reflect off barriers at the same angle of incidence and how they refract when changing speed in different mediums like shallow water.

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    Waves can transfer energy without transferring matter. There are two main types of waves: longitudinal waves where the disturbance is parallel to the direction of wave travel, and transverse waves where the disturbance is perpendicular. Key wave properties include speed, wavelength, amplitude, frequency, cycle, period, and wavefront. The ripple tank experiment demonstrates how waves reflect off barriers at the same angle of incidence and how they refract when changing speed in different mediums like shallow water.

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    Introduction to Waves

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    Waves can transfer energy without transferring matter. There are two main types of waves: longitudinal waves where the disturbance is parallel to the direction of wave travel, and transverse waves where the disturbance is perpendicular. Key wave properties include speed, wavelength, amplitude, frequency, cycle, period, and wavefront. The ripple tank experiment demonstrates how waves reflect off barriers at the same angle of incidence and how they refract when changing speed in different mediums like shallow water.

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    GCSE PHYSICS

    WAVES
    GENERAL WAVE PROPERTIES
    WAVEs
    • Disturbance that transfers energy without the
    movement of the medium.
    • Regular repeating disturbance in the medium
    TYPES OF WAVES
    Longitudinal Wave
    • Disturbance is parallel to the direction of wave

    Transverse Wave
    • Particle vibration is perpendicular to the direction of the wave.

    k
    TRANSVERSE WAVES
    LONGITUDINAL WAVES
    GENERAL REPRESANTATION OF A
    WAVE
    • speed:
    Distance travelled by a wave per unit time

    • Wave length:
    distance by a complete wave, from one
    trough/crest to the next successive trough/crest

    • Amplitude:
    maximum displacement from rest position

    • Frequency:
    number of complete waves per seconds (Hz)

    • Cycle:
    1 complete wave

    • Period:
    Time it takes to complete a cycle is the period
    WAVE FRONT

    Wave Front:
    Lines perpendicular to the direction of the wave

    Distance between 2 successive wave front = wavelength


    FREQUENCY, PERIOD, WAVE EQUATION
    𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠
    𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 =
    𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛

    1 1
    𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑑 = =
    𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 f

    𝑣 = 𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦
    ⋋= 𝑤𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡𝑕 𝑣 = ⋋f Wave equation
    𝑓 = 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦
    4 EXAMPLE
    A B
    0 4 8 12 16 20

    1. Determine;
    a) Amplitude
    4mm
    a) Wave length
    8mm
    4 EXAMPLE cnt 𝑣 = ⋋f
    A B
    0 4 8 12 16 20

    c) If the wave takes 10s to travel from


    A to B. calculate;
    i) The frequency
    ii) The period
    iii) The velocity of the wave
    FORMATION OF WATER WAVES

    if you put your finger into the water, you will


    create circles, waves. This happens because we
    acted on the water mechanically. Wind affects
    water in the same way – mechanically.
    THE RIPPLE TANK EXPERIMENTS
    RELECTION OF WAVES
    1. Place a straight barrier in the
    tank.
    2. Send a series of waves across
    the surface of the water.

    The barrier will behave as if it is a


    mirror – it will reflect the water
    waves

    angle of incoming water waves


    (angle of incidence) = the angle of
    reflection.
    REFRACTION OF WAVES
    Refraction:
    change in speed and direction of a
    wave

    When the water waves come into


    contact with the barrier, water depth
    decreases.

    The direction and the velocity which


    the wave is travelling in changes

    Sound and light waves behave in


    exactly the same way
    EXAMPLE
    1. Complete
    the diagram
    to show of SHALLOW WATER normal
    wave fronts
    and
    direction of
    waves in DIRECTION OF .

    shallow TRAVEL OF WAVE


    water
    DEEP WATER
    END

    WAVES
    GENERAL WAVE PROPERTIES

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