The medium can be fixed like a rope tied to a wall or it can be free like a rope tied loosely to a pole.
Pulse traveling stretched heavy rope light rope attached to wall.
If this is the case there will be an incident pulse traveling in the more dense medium thick rope towards the boundary with a less dense medium thin rope.
The pulse travels through the rope reaches the boundary with the wall and reflects.
A rope of mass m and length l is being rotated about one end in a gravity free space.
O when all the strings on a guitar are stretched to the same tension will the speed of a wave along the most.
Draw the reflected and transmitted pulses after the original pulse has reaches the midpoint.
Sketch the two rope system just after the pulse hits the.
Create a pulse in the rope by flicking one end up and down.
The point where the ropes attach will oscillate with a common frequency.
A heavy rope with a uniform mass density mu is fixed to a support in a ceiling and allowed to hang vertically.
If one end of a heavy rope is attached to one end of a lightweight rope a wave can move from the heavy rope into the lighter one.
Observe a pulse traveling up and down the hose.
Physics p worksheet 9 2.
A wave pulse is sent along a light string which is attached to a heavy rope as shown.
Tie a rope to a wall or some other object that cannot move.
Reflection of a pulse from a fixed end n.
An elastic rope is tied stretched out and loosely attached to a wall such that its end is free to move.
Use the value 9 81m s2 for the acceleration of gravity calculate the.
The string can be modelled.
A wave is travelling along a string.
Finally let s consider a thick rope attached to a thin rope with the incident pulse originating in the thick rope.
An upward displaced pulse is introduced into the rope.
The diagrams are not to scale.
O if one end of a heavy rope is attached to one end of a light rope a wave can move from the heavy rope into.
N reflection of a pulse from a fixed end n investigation.
Below is a pulse in a light rope approaching a heavy rope.
An upward displaced pulse is introduced into the rope.
The pulse travels through the rope reaches the boundary with the wall and reflects.
The reflected pulse will be.
You can ignore the weight of the rope and assume that the rope does not stretch.
Fixed and free end reflection.
A light spring is stretched horizontally and a longitudinal travelling wave is set up in the.
A gymnast of mass 56 0kg hangs from a vertical rope attached to the ceiling.
Transmission of a pulse across a boundary from more to less dense.
The diagram to the right shows a pulse traveling from a heavy string to a light string.
If you grab hold of the hanging end of the rope and shake it back and forth you can set up a wave pulse that will travel up the rope.