College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
3B22.90 - Wave Demo - Overhead Wave Model
Place the model on an overhead projector. As you turn the stems of the corresponding figures the projection from the overhead will look like a traveling wave.
- Robert H. March, "A Standing Wave Simulator", TPT, Vol. 27, #5, May 1989, p. 400.
- Harold C. Jensen, "Longitudinal Standing Waves on the Overhead Projector", TPT, Vol. 7, #2, Feb. 1969, p. 115.
- George Freier, "Erratum", TPT, Vol. 7, #6, Sept. 1969, p. 342.
- Harold C. Jensen, "Hot Standing Waves", TPT, Vol. 6, #5, May 1968, p. 254, also A Potpourri of Physics Teaching Ideas - Optics and Waves, p. 225.
- Rev. Brother Columban Francis, "Waves and Means", TPT, Vol. 3, #8, Nov. 1965, p. 376.
- Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr., "Waggener's Travelling Wave Demonstrator", AJP, Vol. 89, #4, April 2021, p. 412.
- Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr., "Projection Wave Machine (Photo)", AJP, Vol. 71, #12, Dec. 2003, p. 1291.
- Sa- 8: Freier and Anderson, A Demonstration Handbook for Physics.
- W-045: "Rotating Slinky on Overhead", DICK and RAE Physics Demo Notebook.
- Robert Ehrlich, "J.4, Rolled-up Transparency for Longitudinal Waves", Turn the World Inside Out, p. 129.
- R. W. Pohl, Physical Principles of Mechanics and Acoustics, p. 239.
- Borislaw Bilash II, “Transverse Waves“, A Demo A Day – A Year of Physical Science Demonstrations, p. 304.
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