Throughout this whole quarter, I would say that I have learned a lot in this class. Not only that I learned what is in the syllabus but also the importance of being able to apply my understandings on a problem. I believe that the instructor did a great job in addressing the learning outcomes in this class by helping us in understanding the concepts that we need to learn in order complete this course.
One of the learning outcomes of this course is that each students should be able to describe, interpret and predict the propagation of energy via waves, using applied conservation of energy principles. Before this class, I have learned about the law of conservation of energy in PHYS221 with Micheal Greiner. We learned that energy is always conserved and the initial energy of the system should be the same as the final energy of the system. In other words the total energy of an isolated system constant if it is non dissipative meaning there are no energy loss. We did not relate this conservation of energy law with waves, but we did a lot of examples like a cart going down a ramp. The …show more content…
I first know that energy is connected with waves by the simple harmonic motion lab. Waves can be consider as a coupled harmonic oscillates, so that is why I am mentioning about simple harmonic motion. In lab 3, we conducted an experiment to relate conservation of energy with simple harmonic motion. When we pulled the block that is connecting with a spring down the ramp and we released it, it will oscillate because of conservation of energy. Energy is transformed back and forth in the system, from potential energy (gravitational and spring) to kinetic energy. From the lab analysis, I observed that when the kinetic energy is the greatest, the potential energy is the smallest, which show energy is conserved. From this lab, I know the significance of conservation of energy in simple harmonic
One of the learning outcomes of this course is that each students should be able to describe, interpret and predict the propagation of energy via waves, using applied conservation of energy principles. Before this class, I have learned about the law of conservation of energy in PHYS221 with Micheal Greiner. We learned that energy is always conserved and the initial energy of the system should be the same as the final energy of the system. In other words the total energy of an isolated system constant if it is non dissipative meaning there are no energy loss. We did not relate this conservation of energy law with waves, but we did a lot of examples like a cart going down a ramp. The …show more content…
I first know that energy is connected with waves by the simple harmonic motion lab. Waves can be consider as a coupled harmonic oscillates, so that is why I am mentioning about simple harmonic motion. In lab 3, we conducted an experiment to relate conservation of energy with simple harmonic motion. When we pulled the block that is connecting with a spring down the ramp and we released it, it will oscillate because of conservation of energy. Energy is transformed back and forth in the system, from potential energy (gravitational and spring) to kinetic energy. From the lab analysis, I observed that when the kinetic energy is the greatest, the potential energy is the smallest, which show energy is conserved. From this lab, I know the significance of conservation of energy in simple harmonic