WAVES

WAVES

1. STANDING WAVES

   • strings
   • pipes
   • harmonics
   • resonance
   • nodes and anti-nodes

2. MUSIC

   • beats
     • use of beats (tuning)
   • standing waves in musical instruments
   • musical notes
   • musical scales
   • timbre

3. DOPPLER EFFECT

   • stationary observer for mechanical waves
   • cause of the doppler effect
   • aplications
   • sonic booms
   • the red shift

4. INTERFERENCE

   • two point sourse
   • multi point source
     • diffraction grattings
       • colour spectra
   • constructive
     • anti-nodal lines
   • deconstructive
     • nodal lines
   • interference theory
     • path difference
   • light waves
   • sound waves

5. transverse

   • electromagnetic waves

6. longitudinal

   • sound waves

7. properties

   • wavelength
   • amplitude
   • frequency
   • period

8. wave speed

9. phase

10. diffraction