Waves and Sound

A ripple on a pond, a note on a guitar, a voice across a room. All of them are waves. In this chapter you learn how fast a wave goes and what happens when two waves meet. You learn why a string or a pipe can play only certain notes. You also do an experiment with a tuning fork and a tube of air to measure the speed of sound. Python draws the waves for you.

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Waves and Sound

A ripple crosses a pond, a guitar string sings, and an organ pipe fills a hall. They are all waves. In this course we learn what a wave is and how fast it travels. We see what happens when two waves meet: interference and beats. Then we look at standing waves, the secret behind every string and every pipe, and at the resonance tube experiment. Python helps us draw the waves and check our numbers. For Class 11.

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