SCI-117 WAVES AND OPTICS

MODULE 2
YENNA R. LUMBA BSED SCI-3
LEARNING CHECK
I. WORD BANK
Mechanical wave - refers to waves that needs to travel through a medium in order to transfer energy. Waves that
pass through rope and springs, sound waves, and water waves are all example of this type of waves.
Longitudinal wave -are waves in which the medium particle flows back and forth horizontally in a direction that is
parallel to the propagation line.
Transverse wave - refers to waves in which the medium particle goes up and down while travelling horizontally
and perpendicular to the waves motion direction.
Doppler effect - is a phenomenon in which an observer̀ hears a high pitched sound from an approaching source
than from a stationary source . The observer can also hear a lower pitched sound from a source that is moving
away.
Sound intensity - the quantity of energy per unit of time through a unit are perpendicular to the direction in which
sound travels is referred.
II. QUESTIONS
1. What is the evidence that sound travels as a wave?
Sound has various features that are identical to those of any other waves, which provesthat it travels as a waves.
Sound causes interference, which is a wave phenomena, and it can also be refracted. Most imporantly, sound
travels through a medium like any other wave.
2. Children sometimes play with a homemade `̀telephone´'by attaching a string to the bottoms of two paper
cups. When the string is stretch and a child speaks to one cup, the sound can be heard at the other cup. Explain
clearly how the sound wave travels from one cup to the other.
The string that connects the cups acts as a medium for energy transmission, allowing the wave to flow through. As
the person at one end of the string produces sound through speaking, it produces sound waves. Particle vibration
travels from one end of the strings to the other. This is why the person at the other end of the line can hear what
the other is saying.
3. Is there Doppler shift if the source and observer move in the same direction, with the same velocity? Explain.
There will be no change in frequency if the source and the observer is travelling at the same speed and in the same
time and in the same direction. However, I believe that his is not relevant if the source abd the receiver are
travelling at a rapid rate, as there will be some element that change the frequency of the sound.
III. THINK & SOLVE