Question

Mr. Bateman creates a standing wave in the front of the classroom with the spring. S nodes form. The distance from Mr. Bateman to the cabinet is 6m. If a student times the spring moving back and forth and gets 0.2s for one cycle of the spring, how fast are the

waves moving?

Answer 1

The speed of a wave is equal to the wavelength divided by the period. The wavelength is the distance between two consecutive nodes, and the period is the time it takes for one complete cycle of the wave.

In this case, the wavelength is 6 m and the period is 0.2 s. Therefore, the speed of the wave is 30 m/s.

The answer is 30 m/s.

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