Assessment: Progressive mechanical wave. Associated physical quantities. Explain, using a qualitative model, the propagation of a mechanical disturbance in a material environment (spring). Speed of a wave. Delay. Periodic mechanical waves. Sinusoidal waves. Distinguish between spatial and temporal periodicity: Period. Wave length. Relationship between period, wavelength and celerity. λ = v.T et f = 1/T.
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