Large (20 feet long) Shive wave machine that can clearly show the reflection and transmission of a pulse at the boundary of fast and slow media.
Being so large (20 feet long), transverse traveling waves on this apparatus are easily seen by a...
Longitudinal wave demo with suspended slinky.
Demonstration of longitudinal traveling waves in a spring.
The Slinky hangs with a bifilar suspension from a rigid thin-walled electrical conduit frame, which is light, strong and...
Rods attached to metal spine; transverse wave generator shows the reflection of waves free, fixed, terminated and transition boundaries.
Mechanical demonstration of transverse standing or traveling waves using the Shive wave machine.
What it shows: A room-size laser interferometer with audio signal output. A standing wave is produced whenever a wave is reflected back on itself. A resonant cavity requires a second reflection so that the twice reflected wave has the opportunity to be...
Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and random motion. One might call this kinetic art and the choreography of the dance of the...
Two speakers, one at each end of rotating platform; beating due to frequency shift of speakers travelling in opposite directions.
Doppler shifting of sound to higher frequencies occurs when a source is moving towards the observer, and shifted...
10 cm microwaves are used for the demonstration of travelling and standing waves, reflection, interference, refraction, diffraction, absorption, polarization, tunneling, and waveguides.
The following is a sequence of experiments that can...
Ball rolling down tilted trough in oscillatory fashion yields acceleration. Also known as Galileo's Inclined Plane).
An ingenious experiment to measure acceleration due to gravity first performed by Galileo.
The measurement of...
Video of our demo in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUpOlqbHcjI
The following is a sequence of experiments that can accompany a standard lecture on electromagnetic waves. The entire sequence is quite long and you may not want to do...
