Thursday, January 5, 2012

Properties of waves?

The nodal lines are loci of points where the path length difference is an odd-integer multiple of half the wavelength λ. On the 2nd nodal line the path length difference is 1.5λ, so λ = 3/2 = 1.5 cm, and the speed is frequency*λ = 20 cm/s.

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