Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Experiment 3: Waves

        The purpose of this lab is to find the relationship between the frequency and wavelength of a wave.

Procedure:


Experiment conduct

Data:
λ(m)
Time to do 10 cycles (s)
Average time (s)
Period (s)
Frequency (Hz)
3 ± 0.5
4.77 ± 0.50
5.13 ± 0.50
5.05 ± 0.50
4.98 ± 0.50
0.498 ± 0.050
2.03 ± 0.21
4 ± 0.5
6.44 ± 0.50
6.34 ± 0.50
6.43 ± 0.50
6.40 ± 0.50
0.640 ± 0.050
1.56 ± 0.12
5 ± 0.5
3.86 ± 0.50
3.9 ± 0.50
3.75 ± 0.50
3.84 ± 0.50
0.384 ± 0.050
2.60 ± 0.30

Sample Calculations

Graph:

The graph shows that frequency varies as one over wavelength and is related by 7.886m/s. It can be concluded that this number is the speed of the wave travelling along the string.

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