STANDING+WAVE+ON+A+GUITAR+STRING+PRACTICAL

IB PHYSICS > PRACTICAL WORK > IB IA EXPERIMENTS [|IA criteria checklist.doc] - always a good idea to look at this before submitting your work. =STANDING WAVE ON A GUITAR STRING=

PROCEDURE:
For each string in turn, measure the distance (L) from the bridge at the sound box end of the string to the fret. Use the diagram below to note which note is played and then look up what the frequency (f) of the note is. Plot L against f and then process the data to obtain a straight line graph. Use the gradient to calculate the speed of the wave in the string. Theory predicts that v = fL/2.