Principle of Superposition of Waves

The presence of the waves around us works to channelize the various phenomenon. Imagine if one is sailing in the boat, or just hear the siren of the ship. In these cases, one will be able to directly receive the sound wave from the siren of the ship, as well as the sound wave that … Read more

Displacement Relation for a Progressive Wave

The progressive wave travels continuously in the medium in the same direction without any change in its amplitude. The progressive wave may be longitudinal or transverse. Let suppose that the plane’s simple harmonic motion is traveling from the O origin along the positive direction in the X-axis. If there is a counting of the time … Read more

Doppler Effect

Doppler Effect is also known as Doppler shift and it is the change in frequency or we can say wavelength of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving to the wave source. This phenomenon is described by an Australian physicist Christian Doppler in 1842. For an example of this Doppler shift can … Read more

Wave Motion

Wave motion is the propagation of the disturbances, which is the deviation from the resting state or the equilibrium state, from one place to another place in the organized and the regular way. The surface waves on the water are the most familiar ones. Both the waves of the light and sound travel in the … Read more

Speed of Wave Motion

The wave is a disturbance moving along the medium from one point to another. By observing the ocean waves, it can be analyzed that the crest is moving from one location to another over the given period. The crest is observed to cover the distance. The speed of the object is referred to as how … Read more

Transverse wave and longitudinal wave

Waves are the disturbance that travels from one location to another location through any medium. We can observe the disturbance that travels from one end to another end. For example, if the first coil of the slinky is given forth and back vibration then we can observe the motion of disturbance. Category of waves We … Read more

Standing Waves in Strings and Organ Pipes

Waves on a String We can extend the notion of resonance to wave phenomena. Resonances during a wave medium (such as on a string or within the air, for sound) are standing waves; they’re analogous to the resonant oscillation of a mass and spring. Unlike the mass and spring that has solely one resonant frequency, … Read more

Greenhouse Effect

A warming of Earth’s surface and troposphere (the lowest layer of the atmosphere) caused by the presence of water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and certain other gases in the air. These gases, also known as greenhouse gases, water vapors have the largest effect. How it Works? The atmosphere allows most of the visible light from … Read more

Fundamental Mode and Harmonics

Modes of vibration are particularly, though by no means are exclusively related to musical instruments. It is another shape of vibration, and most of the musical instruments have more than one mode of vibration, because without it, they would be fairly limited in their musical range. Compare the sounds of a violin (with 4 to … Read more

Stefan’s Law

Integrating qλ (T) over all wavelengths from zero to infinity, we obtain by means of expressions for determinate integrals the surface density of the total black-body radiation flux qv (T) as„ Where the Stefan−Boltzmann constant o is equal to the second formula as shown in the above picture. Similar expressions can also be gained for … Read more