ers/second. To find the velocity a second way, we can use the formula: V = Distance/time.Using this formula, we simply measured out a space, and counted how long it took a wave to go from one point to another point in a particular amount of time. We could do this because we slowed down the rate at which made the waves were being made and this lowered the frequency and made the waves easy to time. Using this idea, we found that in a distance of .5 meters, it took the wave 1.25 seconds for the wave to get from one point to the other, and this gave us a frequency of .4 meters/second.From finding the two different velocities using two different methods, we found that the velocities of the waves were very similar, and we hypothesize that the velocity of the waves should always stay the same. Even when the wave generator is turned up to full throttle, it is not the velocity that changes, but the frequency.The second thing that will be looked at is a property of wave phenomena called reflection. Reflection is the rebounding of a wave after coming in contact with a barrier. The way in which this will be observed is that a barrier will be placed into the end of the ripple to tank to see how the waves hitting it will be affected, and in turn, those reflected waves would affect other waves. We also have looked at a curve surface, in order to determine how this curved barrier affects the In the reflected waves, the velocity stays the same, the frequency stays the same, and the wavelength stays the same. However, it is observed that the reflected waves have a lesser amplitude than those of the initial waves do. This may be because when the wave hits the barrier, some energy is transferred into the barrier from the wave, and thus, the amplitude lessens. Another thing that changes is the direction of the reflected waves. On the straight barrier the waves are reflected directly off the barrier and travel in the opposite direction. However, on a curved ...
