Last Day

Today, we finished the poster.  We plan on seeing what parts of the wave equation effects the velocity the most.  And tonight, I am going to make a wave bottle. 

DAY 9

We're now putting together a water stimulator

DAY 8

What we have so far:
-Poster

• Put together alreadt just need to put some more information on the poster

-Powerpoint

• Slides done to present

Day 7

Today, we started our Powerpoint which includes equations and diagrams.
We plan on buying a three-sided poster.
We are thinking about also using a water motor to generate waves and pointing out characteristics.

DAY 6

The Moon:
The Moon effects water and tides with it's gravitational pull. Because of this pull, gravity can change the area and speed of the water in the day and night.

Project/Presentation:

• 3D Model; Consist the Sun, the Moon, and Waves.
• Shows that the Sun is farther away from the Earth then the moon is from Earth, so the moon is what controls the waves with it's gravitation pull.
• Powerpoint;
• Definitions of types of waves and the formula
• Poster
• Wave Diagrams; How it works and the progression of the waves

DAY 5

Plan For Project/Presentation:

1. Powerpoint including the main idea with facts and details
2. Project about how waves work and the different facctors that contribute to their movement.

DAY 4

Progression of Waves:

• In the first picture above, the picture illustrates the direction of the water motion at different points along the wave.
• The waves are also caused from the interaction wind and water, and also water and land.
• Bascom describes wavetank experiments where the circulation of the water was studied. The circles summarize the total motion of the medium when a full wavelength passes.

DAY 3

Progression of Waves:

• At the crest of the wave, the water is moving in the same direction of the wave  motion. 
• At the trough of the wave, the motion of the water moves in the opposite direction of the wave.
• Waves move in small orbits measuring 1/9 the wavelength of the total wave.
• As the water gets deeper, the orbits flatten out and become just a forward and backward surge.

• In the first picture above: A trochoidal curve is traced out from point A as the outer circle rolls along the underside of line B
• In the second picture above: A sine curve is traced out by point A as the moving circle rotates with constant angular velocity about B.

DAY 2

Equation for Velocity/Speed of a Wave:

When looking at the ocean waves, when we're in the deep water, the hypertangent in the expression approaches 1, so the first term in the square root determines the deep water speed.

The Limits on tanh functions:

Limiting cases for the velocity expression:

The Physics Behind Ocean Waves:

• The ocean waves has lots of different factors that contributes to it, the biggest is the the moon's gracity. But wind, water, and land do most of the work when it comes to waves.
• The waves moves up and down like a transverse wave, but its actually an orbital progressive waves.



DAY 1

We looked up the physics of ocean waves and found out the formula.  The factors determining the velocity of the wave are wavelength, depth, and gravity.