Sunny Monday

After a lovely weekend, we're back in the salt mines trudging through waves. B Block reviewed Friday's lab investigation on factors affecting the period of a simple pendulum and then plowed through properties of waves. E and F Blocks did pretty much the same, although they already had their lab discussions under their belts. We've been tying together the properties of vibrations with the waves they produce and have a nice list of vocabulary terms to deal with come test time. Make sure you can define and identify properties of waves/vibrations such as period, frequency, amplitude, wavelength, crest and trough and make all relevant calculations that we practiced in class and lab. We also added wave speed to the mix and looked at different ways to calculate wave speed, the most commonly used method being the formula v = λf; where wavelength is in meters and frequency is in Hertz. Tomorrow, we keep rolling along and add in wave interactions, which we will cover in far more depth in the sound and light chapters.

C Block completed their Pendulum Periods lab and the above paragraph will be relevant to you tomorrow.