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General Physics 1 Activity Sheet

Quarter 2 – MELC 21 and 22
Week 5
Interference and Standing Waves

REGION VI – WESTERN VISAYAS

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General Physics 1
Activity Sheet No. 8 - Interference and Standing Waves
First Edition, 2020

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General Physics 1 Activity Sheet No. 8

Interference and Standing Waves

I. Learning Competency with Code

• Describe qualitatively and quantitatively the superposition of waves
STEM_GP12MWSIIe-35
• Apply the condition for standing waves on a string STEM_GP12MWSIIe-36

II. Background Information for Learners

Have you seen a sound system speaker? Do you know how

it produce sounds? Using one audio speaker will make you
enjoy music at home. If you add another speaker to the
system, the sound intensity doubles (becomes louder).
Sound waves from the first speaker interact with the sound
waves of the second speaker.
https://www.nde-ed.org/EducationResources/HighSchool/Sound/interference.htm

In this learning activity you will learn how an audio

speaker will produce sound waves.

III. Activity Proper

Directions: Read the selection below about superposition and standing waves.
Answer the activity that follows.

Principle of Superposition – when two or more waves move through a medium,

waves can be sum up. As the waves meet along the medium, their amplitude adds up
algebraically and it creates a single resultant wave as shown in Figure 1. The two
waves will continue to move in the string (medium) but will not affect how the other
wave behaves. No matter how many waves will travel on the string, they will create a
single resultant wave every time they met but will not affect the behaviour of the
individual waves.

Figure 1: The resultant wave is the algebraic sum of the individual waves meeting at a single point along the medium.

In a classroom, sound waves came from different sources (ex. talking/chatting

classmates). No matter how many of your classmates are there, you can still
distinguish the voice of your classmate #1 from your classmate #2 because the sound
waves created by your classmate #1 does not change the sound waves created by
your classmate #2.

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Standing wave – a pulsating stationary pattern caused by the interference of
harmonic waves of equal amplitude and wavelength travelling in opposite direction.

Consider a string attached to a fixed point in Figure 2(a). When a single incident wave
hits a boundary, the wave is reflected back with negative amplitude from the fixed end.
If energy is not lost as the incident wave bounces, the reflected wave will have the
same amplitude and wavelength.

(a) (b)
Figure 2: (a) The incident wave and the reflected wave have the same magnitude; (b) The standing wave is the interference of
two identical waves moving in the opposite direction.

If the incident wave is a sinusoidal wave that continuously bounce back from the fixed
end as shown in Figure 2(b), the reflected wave will be a reversed sinusoidal wave
with the same amplitude and wavelength. Since the two waves (incident and reflected
waves) travel at a single medium, they will simultaneously interact with one another
and create an interference called a standing wave. What you will see in a standing
wav

You will not see a standing wave moving from left to right, instead it creates a
stationary wave with nodes and antinodes. A node is the part of the standing wave
where there is no displacement while an antinode is the part of the standing wave
with the greatest displacement.

(a) (b) (c)

Figure 3: (a) The standing wave has 2 nodes and 1 antinode; (b) the standing wave has 3 nodes and 2 antinodes; (c) the
standing wave has 4 nodes and 3 antinodes

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ACTIVITY
Directions: Perform the activity and apply what you have learned.

A. Objectives:
1. To be able to understand superposition of waves.
2. To be able to understand how standing wave is created.

B. Materials: long rope or chain

C. Procedure:
1. Stretch the rope/chain by holding one end of it and let another person hold the
other end.
2. Create a wave by swinging one end of the rope/chain.
3. Create another wave on the other end of the rope/chain.
4. Observe how the resultant wave is created.

D. Answer the following:

1. Describe the amplitude of the resultant wave when the two individual waves
combine.
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2. What happens to the two waves after they created a resultant wave?
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3. Given the different incident waves shown below, illustrate what the resultant wave
would look like when they interact in the middle.

Incident Waves Resultant Wave Incident Waves Resultant Wave

1. 5.

2. 6.

3. 7.

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4. Illustrate what the resultant wave would look like when the incident and reflected
waves interact simultaneously.
Incident Incident
Wave Wave
Reflected Reflected
Wave Wave
Resultant Resultant
Wave Wave

5. What is needed for the standing wave to occur?

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VI. Reflection
Complete the statements below.

I learned that…
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I don’t understand…
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I need more information about

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Activity
1. The individual waves created from both ends of the rope will combine into a single wave. As the two waves
combine, their individual magnitude adds up.
2. The individual waves continue to travel in the rope towards the opposite direction.
3.
4.
5. The incident and the reflected waves must be travelling in the opposite direction, has the same magnitude
and wavelength.
VII. Answer Key