PHY132S Waves - Class 3 - Monday January 12 2009

Today we finished our discussion of the Doppler Effect (§20.7) and then began Chapter 21. We essentially talked about §21.1 through §21.3.

Links

As usual, here are links to the PowerPoint and other materials we used in class today.

Side Screen PowerPoint as pdf
Journal as pdf (Con Hall only)
A Flash animation of three of the standing waves of a string fixed on both ends

A Flash animation of three of the standing waves of a string fixed on on one end and open on the other end

You may wish to know that we also used the Java applet of waves on a string that we used in Class 1, and also the Flash animation of a sound wave that we used in Class 1.

Animated GIFs

In the PowerPoint, slide 9 had an animated gif illustrating superposition. Here it is:

Slide 10 used an animated gif to find the superposition of a triangular wave pulse traveling to the right and its reflection from a fixed end:

Two triangular wave pulses, one traveling to the right, the other to the left

 

 

 

 

Superposition of the two pulses