{"id":135690,"date":"2015-10-23T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=ffc6cb29986a15b846a8017d144c852f"},"modified":"2015-10-23T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T23:00:00","slug":"slowing-mechanical-waves-with-a-consumer-type-high-speed-digital-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=135690","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Slowing\u2019 mechanical waves with a consumer-type high-speed digital camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In most secondary physics textbooks, waves are first introduced with examples of mechanical waves<br \/>\nbecause they can be illustrated by drawings and photographs. However, these illustrations are static<br \/>\nand cannot reflect the dynamic nature of waves. Although many mechanical waves (e.g. water waves and<br \/>\nvibrating strings) can be easily shown using school apparatus, their motions are too rapid to<br \/>\nobserve clearly. Computer simulation is a solution but is not \u2018real\u2019. This article describes how a<br \/>\nconsumer-type high-speed digital camera can be used visually slowing the motion of some wave<br \/>\nexperiments. Several techniques to further improve the visibility of the video content are also<br \/>\ndescribed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In most secondary physics textbooks, waves are first introduced with examples of mechanical waves<br \/>\nbecause they can be illustrated by drawings and photographs. However, these illustrations are static<br \/>\nand cannot reflect the dynamic nature of waves. Alt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-135690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}