Develop an experimental method to determine the speed of a wave on a string.
I. Initial Ideas: Answer the following questions.
- What is a wave? Define “wave” in your own words.
- What types of waves exist? How are these waves made? How are these waves similar and different?
- Recall the word “speed”. What is speed? What equation(s) do we have for calculating speed? How can we measure the speed of a moving object?
- We often talk about the speed of sound and the speed of light. Sound and light are two different types of waves. What do you think we mean when we talk about the
“speed” of a wave?