Standing waves on holidays

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2023

Authors

Carvalho, PS (Author) FCUP; Hahn, MD (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Physics Education

Vol. 58

ISSN: 0031-9120

Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing

Indexing

Scopus - 0 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Social sciences > Educational sciences

CORDIS: Physical sciences > Physics

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00Z-VQH

DOI: 10.1088/1361-6552/acfbd5

Abstract (EN): Standing waves are a common phenomenon in nature, but sometimes difficult to understand by the students. Many of them do not realise, for example, that the sound coming from the musical instruments is due to standing waves that are formed in strings, membranes, or cavities on those instruments. In this paper, we describe a simple activity that occurred in a circular pool during holidays which excited people for generating standing waves with their own body. This was also an opportunity for talking about this phenomenon with young people and make simple calculations of the speed of waves in shallow water. This is an example that summertime is not just for relaxing and teachers may find good examples of applied physics to bring to their classes and help students to better understand physics contents. © 2023 IOP Publishing Ltd.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific