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AP Physics 1: 2.3 Waves. Which of the following is best described as longitudinal wave motion?
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If you've ever listened to someone with coffee breath, you know that the closer they scoot, the more intense it gets. It's pretty much the same principle with radiation.
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No and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by intensity intensity can be a good thing especially when
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we're getting ready for a big test But too much
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intensity when we're studying can be a bad thing Even
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we hear it smoking a little sleep well a longitudinal
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wave source lambda is located five meters to the left
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of point x A trans verse wave source bro is
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ten meters to the right of point x Both sources
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emit s o tropic radiation of the same power What
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can be said about the ratio of intensities measured at
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point x All right here The potential answers Yes we
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got all that intensity introduction thing Okay well we've got
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trans verse waves We've got longitudinal waves We've got s
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o tropic radiation This is like the start of a
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superhero origin story or something But before we get to
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the part where shmoop er man comes to earth let's
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figure out how these intensities relate well ice A tropical
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radiation emanates from a point source and it shoots out
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in all directions with equal intensity Because of this fact
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the farther we are from the source of radiation the
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less the intensity we feel in fact intensity is proportional
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to the inverse square of the distance from the source
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of radiation So if one object a is twice a
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ce far from a radiation source as object be than
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object a will get hit with one quarter of the
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radiation object b receives which means for our question since
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object lambda is one half the distance from the source
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of the radiation as object row the radiation received from
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lambda will be four times higher So our answer is
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a but let's run through the math Just to be
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sure the leftward intensity is proportional to the inverse square
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of the leftward radius and the right word intensity is
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equal to the inverse square of the right word radius
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since we're looking for the radius will set the leftward
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intensity over the right word intensity With this complex fraction
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it simplifies to the right word Distance squared over the
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left word distance squared We just plug in our numbers
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and sure enough we get same answer Leftward intensity is
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four times higher and let's try to keep our studying
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intensity at a reasonable level A five maybe a six
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We've been at ten before and it wasn't pretty after
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we woke up in the closet muttering about wave frequencies
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Who decided Tto dial it back a bit and go 00:02:37.51 --> [endTime] decaf
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