Ripple Tanks

Write up your investigations using the ripple tank.  You need photos and explanations of the following:

  • creating straight waves
  • creating circular waves
  • interference – what happens when two sets of waves meet
  • reflection from straight and curved surfaces
  • diffraction – both single and double slit diffraction

Try to apply as many of your observations as possible to sound – particularly interference between multiple sound sources or between direct and reflected sources.