Wave Concepts Game Simulator (not updated anymore)

The updated app is available here

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ionicframework.waverepresentation&rdid=com.ionicframework.waverepresentation

About

An open source physics at Singapore simulation based on codes written by Andrew Duffy and Loo Kang WEE.

more resources can be found here

http://iwant2study.org/ospsg/index.php/interactive-resources/physics/04-waves

Introduction

Wave is an oscillation accompanied by a transfer of energy that travels through medium (space or mass)

Waves consist, instead, of oscillations or vibrations (of a physical quantity), around almost fixed locations

This simulation is on transverse wave where disturbance creates oscillations that are perpendicular to the propagation of energy transfer.

The equation for wave is A sin ( wt +kx + ϕ)

where

A is the maximum amplitude of the wave, maximum distance from the highest point of the disturbance in the medium (the crest) to the equilibrium point during one wave cycle.

w is is the angular frequency

t is time

k is is the wavenumber

x is the position

ϕ is the is the phase constant

concepts illustrated in the simulations include

T is the time for one complete cycle of an oscillation of a wave

f is the number of periods per unit time (per second) and is related by T = 1/f

λ is the wavelength

v is the velocity of the wave travelling and is related by v= f λ

vtmax is the maximum transverse velocity of the wave particle that occurs at the displacement d =0.

Acknowledgement

My sincere gratitude for the tireless contributions of Francisco Esquembre, Fu-Kwun Hwang, Wolfgang Christian, Félix Jesús Garcia Clemente, Anne Cox, Andrew Duffy, Todd Timberlake and many more in the Open Source Physics community. I have designed much of the above based on their ideas and insights, and I thank the OSP community for which Singapore was honored with 2015-6 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education. This research is made possible by the eduLab project NRF2015-EDU001-EL021 , awarded by the Prime Minister Office, National Research Foundation (NRF), Singapore in collaboration with National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore and the Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore.