ITESM CAMPUS TOLUCA

DEPARTAMENTO DE CIENCIAS BÁSICAS

PHYSICS II LABORATORY
STANDING WAVES
CLAUDIA CAMACHO ZUÑIGA, PhD.
October 2016

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PART 1.
1. State three differences between standing and travelling waves.
2. Explain the difference between the third harmonic and third overtone.
3. A rope with fixed length can vibrate in different modes. When the number of harmonic increases.
A) Explain the effect on the wavelength.
B) Explain the effect on the frequency.
C) Analyze the effect on the speed of the wave.
4. A wave 𝑦1 (𝑥, 𝑡) = 𝐴1 𝑠𝑖𝑛(𝑘1 𝑥 + 𝜔1 𝑡) interferes with 𝑦2 (𝑥, 𝑡) = 𝐴2 𝑠𝑖𝑛(𝑘2 𝑥 − 𝜔2 𝑡) on the same rope. Is it
possible that they form a pattern similar to a standing wave if:
a) If 𝑘1 < 𝑘2?
b) If 𝑘1 > 𝑘2?
c) If 𝑘1 = 𝑘2
PART 2.
2.1 A large rock that weighs 164.0 N is suspended from the lower end of a thin wire that is 3.00 m long. The
density of the rock is 3200 Kg/m3. The mass of the wire is small enough that its effect on the tension in the
wire can be neglected. The upper end of the wire is held fixed. When the rock is in air, the fundamental
frequency for transverse standing waves on the wire is 42.0 Hz. When the rock is totally submerged in a liquid,
with the top of the rock just below the surface, the fundamental frequency for the wire is 28.0 Hz. What is the
density of the liquid?
2.2 One type of steel has a density 7.8 × 103 𝑘𝑔/𝑚3 of and a breaking stress of 7.0 × 108 𝑁/𝑚2 . A cylindrical
guitar string is to be made of 4.00 g of this steel. (a) What is breaking stress? (b) What is the minimum cross
sectional area that a string can have under tension of 900 N? (c) What are the length of the longest and
thinnest string that can be placed under a tension of 900 N without breaking? (d) What is the highest
fundamental frequency that this string could have?