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The Crest of the Wave was published in 1939 just before the war and now, almost twenty years later, Peter (my friend and publisher) has decided to reprint it. During the years between, we have endured and won a war (if it can be called winning, for even the winner must lose in wars today) and full employment has sent up the cost of everything.
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- Overview
- Key points:
- Transverse waves
- Longitudinal waves
- How to understand the wave speed equation
- How waves transport energy
- Common mistakes and misconceptions
- Learn more
Review your understanding of wave properties.
•A wave is a repeating disturbance that travels through matter or space transferring only energy.
•Below is a model of a wave.
•A wave’s crest is its highest point, and its trough is its lowest point.
•A wave’s amplitude is the maximum distance (positive or negative) a wave reaches from its rest position.
•Wavelength is the distance between the same spot on two sections of a wave.
•A wave is a repeating disturbance that travels through matter or space transferring only energy.
•Below is a model of a wave.
•A wave’s crest is its highest point, and its trough is its lowest point.
•A wave’s amplitude is the maximum distance (positive or negative) a wave reaches from its rest position.
•Wavelength is the distance between the same spot on two sections of a wave.
•A wave’s frequency can be measured by how many crests (or how many troughs) pass a location in a certain amount of time.
Transverse waves vibrate the particles of a medium perpendicularly to the direction of wave travel to produce the features shown in Figure 1 below.
[What's the difference between the crest and the amplitude?]
Longitudinal waves form when the particles of the medium vibrate back and forth in the same direction of the traveling wave. The wave can be visualized as compressions and expansions travelling along the medium. The distance between adjacent compressions is the wavelength.
The speed v of a wave is constant for any unchanging medium, so frequency and wavelength are inversely proportional. The wave speed equation is not a new equation, it’s just a different way of writing
v=Δxt
which we can rearrange to get
Δx=vt
Wavelength λ is the distance that a wave crest (or trough) travels over one period T . We can write period in terms of frequency f . Let’s make these substitutions to get:
λ=vTλ=vf
Waves carry energy through a medium. Any displacement of the wave is resisted by a directly proportional restoring force. The work to produce a big wave amplitude requires both large forces and displacements, which results in more wave energy.
Therefore, energy transported by a wave increases with the wave amplitude.
Sometimes people forget that the only way to change wave speed is to change the properties of the wave medium. For example, waves on a string travel faster if you increase the tension of the string. Sound waves travel faster if you increase the temperature of the air. Changing the frequency or amplitude of the waves will not change the wave speed, ...
For deeper explanations of wave characteristics, see the video on properties of periodic waves.
To check your understanding and work toward mastering these concepts, check out our exercises:
•Characteristics of longitudinal and transverse waves
•Calculating wave speed, frequency, and wavelength
•Calculating frequency and wavelength from displacement graphs
•Wave energy from graphs
The maximum displacement, known as the crest of the wave, is at 2 cm, the minimum displacement, the trough of the wave, is at -2 cm, and the midpoint between the crest and the trough is the equilibrium position, here at y=0 cm.
A wave is described by its wavelength (or the distance between two sequential crests or two sequential troughs), the wave period (or the time it takes a wave to travel the wavelength), and the wave frequency (the number of wave crests that pass by a fixed location in a given amount of time).
