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    Straw Waves and Energy Transfer

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    This document describes an activity using a straw model to demonstrate wave properties and energy transfer. Students will explore how changing variables like tape length, straw thickness, or adding mass affects the motion of waves in the model. They will make predictions and observations and discuss how factors like amplitude relate to the energy carried by a wave. The goal is to understand that waves transport energy through a medium without the medium itself transporting.

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    This document describes an activity using a straw model to demonstrate wave properties and energy transfer. Students will explore how changing variables like tape length, straw thickness, or adding mass affects the motion of waves in the model. They will make predictions and observations and discuss how factors like amplitude relate to the energy carried by a wave. The goal is to understand that waves transport energy through a medium without the medium itself transporting.

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    This document describes an activity using a straw model to demonstrate wave properties and energy transfer. Students will explore how changing variables like tape length, straw thickness, or adding mass affects the motion of waves in the model. They will make predictions and observations and discuss how factors like amplitude relate to the energy carried by a wave. The goal is to understand that waves transport energy through a medium without the medium itself transporting.

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    Straw

    Waves and Energy Transfer


    Waves carry energy not mass!
    Using straws, tape, and other materials to create models for exploring wave
    properties and energy transfer.

    Introduction:
    We will use this model to demonstrate several different science concepts.
    Newton’s Law of Inertia –states that objects at rest will remain at rest and
    objects in motion will remain in motion unless acted on by an unbalanced
    force.
    A force is a push or a pull.
    Push on one of the straws and observe.
    Energy is carried by waves. Notice that only energy is moving through the
    model – energy transfer.
    The more force applied -the more energy transfer and the greater the
    motion of the straws.
    Reflection and transmission observed as the energy moves through of the
    straws reaching the top and reflecting back down.
    Pushing a straw in the middle will also show transmission and reflection.
    Some of the energy is transferred to the top, transferred to the bottom and
    then reflect back to the middle.

    Part 1
    Discuss way to impart motion on the straw model.
    Record methods.
    What are the differences and similarities that you observed?

    Ask the students:
    What other variables can be changed in the straw model?

    Record all suggestions and discuss.


    Possible variables.
    Tape- length, one side or two sides of tape, type of tape, width of tape
    Straws – length, type of straw, color, thickness
    Mass- mass on the end of the straws, mass at the bottom of the model

    1

    Part 2
    Ask students to select one variable to explore and share with the group
    their plan.
    Document the their plan.

    Part 3
    Build a model changing one variable.
    Use about a .5 or 1 Meter of tape.
    Leave space on tape to hang at the top and space for weights at the
    bottom.

    Part 4
    Compare and share out results with group. Show effects of the changed
    variable.
    Did you have more than one variable?
    What would you do different?
    If time permits, send students back to re-engineer their model.


    Part 5
    Predict the effects of putting together 2 different models to make one
    longer model.
    Connect your model with another groups model and explore. Observe.
    Discuss the observations


    Guiding the discussion:
    What are ways to speed up the motion?
    What’s your evidence?
    What are ways to slow it down?
    What is your evidence?
    Describe other changes that occur.



    2

    What is a wave?
    'Wave' is a common term for a number of different ways in which energy is
    transferred: In electromagnetic waves, energy is transferred through
    vibrations of electric and magnetic fields. In sound waves, energy is
    transferred through vibration of air particles or particles of a solid through
    which the sound travels.

    How is energy related to a wave?
    The amount of energy carried by a wave is related to the amplitude of the
    wave. A high-energy wave is characterized by a-high amplitude; a low
    energy wave is characterized by a-low amplitude. ... Putting a lot of energy
    into a transverse pulse will not affect the wavelength, the frequency or the
    speed of the pulse.

    Do all waves carry energy?
    Light, heat, radio, and similar types of energy are carried by a variety of
    waves in the ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM. Some energy waves need a
    medium, such as water or air, through which to travel. The medium moves
    back and forth as waves carry energy through it, but it does not actually
    travel along with the wave.

    Resource- Physics in the classroom
    http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/waves/Lesson-2/Energy-
    Transport-and-the-Amplitude-of-a-Wave

    LIGO SEC Summer Teacher workshops 2017
    kholt@ligo-la.caltech.edu
    wkatzman@ligo-la.caltech.edu

    Kholt and WKatzman




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