https://physlab-wiki.com/ 2026-04-29T04:33:39+00:00 https://physlab-wiki.com/ https://physlab-wiki.com/lib/tpl/UChicago/images/favicon.ico text/html 2024-06-11T12:56:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://physlab-wiki.com/phylabs/lab_courses/phys-140-wiki-home/spring-experiments/archive/wave-motion-lab/duplicate-wave-motion-and-sound-142?rev=1718125011&do=diff Standing Waves - PHYS143 In this lab you will use the physics of standing waves and how waves propagate to make measurements of the speed of sound in air and the linear mass density $\rho$ of a vibrating string. Teaching Goal The quantities which you are measuring, the speed of sound and the linear mass density of a piece of string, are not in and of themselves particularly physically interesting quantities. As with the other labs in the PHYS140's sequence our goal is to teach you $F=ma$$F…