A slinky, primarily a toy, is designed for flexible, elongated motion down steps, while a spring is an elastic component used to store mechanical energy.
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The whole spring goes down the stairs, end over end, in a periodic fashion. When the top end of a slinky is dropped, the information of the tension change must propagate (in the form of a wave) to the bottom end before both ends begin to fall. What happens is that the top of an...
Slinkies are famous toys that are primarily a coil spring with multiple entertaining properties. A Slinky has the ability of stepping down stairs automatically, with moments of apparent defiance of gravity, and its properties are mostly governed by the physics of waves, gravity and momentum. In 19...
When the mass is displaced from equilibrium, the change in force exerted by each spring is always in the same direction: towards the equilibrium position. Thus both springs contribute positively to the net restoring force.Similar threadsReflection and Transmission of String Waves Sep 8, 2024 ...
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transverse longitudinal waves : slinky lab! so this lab we did is called the transmission and reflection of a one-dimensional transverse wave... 1. we created a transverse pulse from one side and observed a point near the middle of the spring as the pulse passed... - > so i wrote that...