Refraction - ripple tank , Physics

Assignment Help:

In a ripple tank two regions A and B can be created by introducing a pile of glass plates in region B.
Thus region B is a shallow water region while region A is a deep water region.
The two regions behave as two media for water waves.
The frequency (n) of the vibrating source remains constant, the velocity (V2) in the region (B) i.e., V₁ > V₂.
Therefore from the relation V= nλ it is seen that, λ₁> λ₂
As far as bending of waves is concerned the deep water region.
A behaves as a denser medium and the shallow water region B behaves as rarer medium because the waves in region B bend away from the normalON.
However if we consider the velocities, A behaves as a rarer medium and B as a denser medium, because V₂ in B is less than, V₁ in A.
In any case the bending of waves (water waves or light waves) or the change in their velocities at the boundary separating the two media is due to the phenomenon of refraction.

$1074_Refraction.png$

Related Discussions:- Refraction - ripple tank

Subset [tabular method], a=The set of whole numbers less than 4

a=The set of whole numbers less than 4

Electric potential of a solid object, Which statement concerning the electr...

Which statement concerning the electric potential of a solid object made out of a perfectly conducting medium is most correct? Answer: It is the electric field which is z

Object image relationships, Object-Image Relationships Ray tracing for ...

Object-Image Relationships Ray tracing for a thin lens showing the formation of a real image of an object.

Determine the applications of MOSFET, Determine the Applications of MOSFET ...

Determine the Applications of MOSFET MOSFETs can also be used for most applications where JFET is used. MOSFETs have become very popular for digital logic circuits bec

State coulombs law in electrostatics, Q. State Coulombs law in electrostati...

Q. State Coulombs law in electrostatics? Coulomb's law declares that the force of attraction or repulsion between two point charges is directly proportional to the product of t

Transistor configurations, current gain equations in 3 configurations.

current gain equations in 3 configurations.

Parallel and unlike forces, GIve live examples for like and unlike paralle...

GIve live examples for like and unlike parallel forces

How many arsenic atoms should there be for each silicon atom, Silicon has 1...

Silicon has 1.45 x 10 10 free electrons/cm 3 at room temperature. If you wanted to have 3x10 6 as many electrons from arsenic doping as thermal free electrons from silicon at ro

Electric field due to a line segment of charge, In computing the electric f...

In computing the electric field at a point call it point P in the first quadrant of a Cartesian coordinate system because of a continuous charge distribution from 0 to L on the x-a

Neutral point, plotting

plotting

Write Your Message!

Name

Email id

Message

Verfication Code

User Account

All Pages