Experiment Report

Mechanical Wave

Experiment Topic : Mechanical wave Purpose Day/Date Base Of Theory : To investigate wave on ripple tank : Tuesday, September 06th 2011 : Wave is fibration form that propagation in one of medium. A mechanical wave is a wave that need a medium to propagate, that give energy for process of penjalaran a wave. Sound is one of an example of mechanic wave that propagation throught air pressure change in a room. And the second one is sea wave, we can see the sea wave in the beach, that need water as its medium. And the last example is wave at the tale or slinky.

Material and Equipment: A set of ripple tank Generator audio Capacity catu Water

Step of experiment: 1. Prepare equipment of ripple tank and arange it. Arrange the position of light source to exactly concerning all of water based. Put a nosel with its upper strive water based. 2. Connected the interval from nosel at generator vibration and on the generator. Arrange the frequency audio generator at the lowest frequency. 3. Look the ripples wave at screen. 4. Look the wave bounch water ripple if we use the barrier.

Observation tabel
Tabel 1 Experiment 1. Barrier form Pola bounce wave

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Tabel 2

Questions :

1. Based on the picture result of observation at the tabel 1, what the bounces wave To all kinds of barrier is different. If different, mention the reason and draw the vignette bounces wave formed that happen? 2. On the tabel 2, there are an different out wave from one and two space are new wave. How to the frequency and amplitude, are same? Give the reason!

Answers:
1. The reflection wave pattern to all kind of barrier is same. Beacause, wave that give a barrier, will be refleted with contrary direction from the incident wave. 2. The wave that passing one gap will get one of new wave, meanwhile the wave that passing two gap will get two of new gap. So the frequency are same too. But the amplitude from two space are different because there wave interference in wave from two space.

Conclusion :
1. Bounces wave to each barier that different get the result wave same form.

2. Wave if througt small space will happen new wave As a result of diffraction process And it is known as a diffraction event.

Bibliography

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