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Announcements 9/28/12

Announcements 9/28/12. Prayer About that exam… In Testing Center, Saturday morning until Thursday evening No textbook, no notes See website for list of equations that I give you

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Announcements 9/28/12

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  1. Announcements 9/28/12 • Prayer • About that exam… • In Testing Center, Saturday morning until Thursday evening • No textbook, no notes • See website for list of equations that I give you • I’ll give you all constants/conversion factors/materials parameters you need (except for super easy ones, like 100 cm = 1 m) • You can use your own calculator, but you’re on your honor not to store extra stuff in calc. memory • 18 multiple choice, 3 short descriptive answer, 6 worked problems, 1 extra credit (no partial credit on the e.c.) • No time limit, but “time goal” is 2 hours avg (took me 39 mins, not including extra credit)

  2. The equations I give you:

  3. More on the exam • What to study? I’d recommend in roughly this order: • Homework • Class notes • Old exams • Book problems & optional HW problems Some more specifics about the exam… xkcd

  4. Waves • Skipping: Oscillations, Ch. 15 • If you don’t recall “simple harmonic motion”, please review on your own. • Starting next lecture: Some sections from Physics Phor Phynatics, Dr. Durfee’s book • Starting lecture after that: Complex numbers • Clicker: Have you seen: eix = cosx + isinx ? A = “have seen” B = “not” C = “maybe, but I can’t remember”

  5. From warmup Extra time on? (nothing in particular) Other comments? This material starts the new unit, so it's not on the exam, right? Is the homework that's due today as time consuming as it looks? Can you get a standing longitudinal wave?

  6. Wave intro: some math • What do these functions look like? • f(x) = x2 • f(x) = (x – 1)2 • Think: What would be an equation for a parabola that moves 1 m to the right every second? • What will this function look like at 0 s? at 1 s? at 2 s? • f(x) = (2x – 6t)2 • What is its “velocity”?

  7. Sinusoidal waves • Nothing special about parabolas… • What does f(x) = cos(x – vt) look like at t = 0? at t = a little later? • Add in “amplitude” • Add in “phase” • How to change spatial period? • What if you want wave to move right-to-left instead of left-to-right? “Wave function”

  8. Wave properties • Definition: oscillating disturbance that transfers energy (but not mass). • Direction of travel • Direction of oscillation: transverse vs longitudinal • Medium • Examples… • Water • Earthquake (P & S) • Sound • Light • Rubber tubing (demo) • Slinky (demo) Wikipedia: “S-wave”

  9. Did you say “Slinky”? • The handing out of the slinkies

  10. From warmup In a long line of people waiting to buy tickets, the first person leaves and a pulse of motion occurs as people step forward to fill the gap. As each person steps forward, the gap moves through the line. Is the propagation of the gap longitudinal or transverse? Explain. It is longitudinal because the gap travels parallel to the direction the people move. Think about "the wave" at a BYU football game. People stand up and raise their arms as the wave arrives at their location and the resultant pulse moves around the stadium. Is this wave transverse or longitudinal? Transverse because the people move up which is perpendicular to the direction the wave is traveling.

  11. From warmup Do transverse waves occur in air? Explain why or why not. No because there is nothing that would cause air to go up and down [wave is horizontal]. Sound is a longitudinal wave They are not propagated by air. however, an electromagnetic wave may move through the air.

  12. Web demo • http://paws.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos/waves/wavemotion.html

  13. Wave properties, cont. • Web demo: Stokes’ “Traveling Sine Wave” http://stokes.byu.edu/sinewave_script_flash.html • Wavelength l • meters/wave • Period T • seconds/wave • Frequency ( f = 1/T ) • waves/second • Speed v • m/s v = fl

  14. Wavefunction • Let’s call it “s(x)” for now (because “f” is used for frequency) • What are the units of s? • What does s really represent? • For transverse waves… • For longitudinal waves… • What does s(x) represent?

  15. What’s that funny symbol? The (Linear 1D) Wave Equation • Why is it called the wave equation? • Because traveling waves are solutions of the equation! C = v2 Any function that has “x-vt” will work! …or “x+vt”

  16. k and w • What’s the difference between these: • General form of cosine wave: …sometimes written as: • k = “wavevector”; w = “angular frequency” w = _______

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