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Slide 1
Wave
Frequency
Amplitude
Slide 5 Huygens principle
Every point on a wave front can be considered as a source of wavelets
that move outward at the speed of the wave itself creating a new wave
front.
Slide 6 Relationship between amplitude and radius
The relationship between the intensity of the sound wave and the distance
from the source known as the inverse square law:
This means that the further the receiver moves along the y axis away
from the transmitter, its intensity will decrease by a factor of 1/ (distance
moved in metres) squared.
It is now shown that
the amplitude of a
sound wave is
inversely proportional
to its distance from the
source.
Slide 12 Task 3
This task was investigating the relationship between amplitude and radius
and doing so by adjusting the distance of the receiver by intervals of 5cm.
This experiment was conducted to see if amplitude really is in fact
inversely proportional to distance from the source.
Slide 13 Task 3 (Continued)
Our graph illustrates the raw readings from task 3 and by selecting
random points along the line of fit we find that it corresponds with the
proportionality of amplitude and radius.
For example we found if you pick any random points on the line for
example

and these results do overlap when considering their errors therefore it is

conclusive to say that we have proved this relation.
Slide 14 Task 4
The set up for task 4 was to position the optical benches parallel to
eachother with the aluminium sheet perpendicular.
Slide 15 Task 4 (Continued)
Two different values for the distance between the maxima (s) was found
(s1 = 0.0150 0.0001m; s2=0.018 0.001m). The error analysis on both
values suggested that neither were satisfactory, and thus the equation
x
s=
could not be confirmed.
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Slide 16 Task 4 (Continued- Graph)
TR is the distance the direct wave travels in order to reach the receiver whereas
IR is the distance the reflected wave would have taken if it originated from the
image point.
In order for maxima to occur the two waves have to be in phase when they meet
the receiver, this means that their path difference (the extra distance one wave
has to travel to catch up with another wave) needs to be a multiple of the waves
wavelength. Hence why equation 10 shows n lamda because a difference of
distance between IR and TR needs to be a multiple of lamda for the waves to be
in phase and to produce constructive interference.

If the vertical component of the distance between the transmitter and

receiver is kept constant and the distance moved by the receiver is
known, then the distance TR (transmitter to receiver) after the receiver is
moved by intervals of 0.5cm can be calculated using Pythagoras Theorem
where. The same is done for IR. Making n the subject in these equations
and using the points seen as maxima on the graph, it can be stated that
this was a success because the answers were shown to be whole numbers
when considering their erros. For example.

As you can see from the graph the amplitude of the maxima decreases the
further the receiver travels from the transmitter this is because of the inverse
square law describes in task 3.