Interview response of an A student
*J. M. Saul, Ph.D. Dissertation, U. of MD, January 1998 and
Michael Wittmann, Ph.D. Dissertation, U. of MD, December 1998.
"Okay. Over a long, taut spring, the friction or the loss of energy should not be significant; so the wave should be pretty much the exact same height, distance everything. So, it should be about the same wave.
No, wait. Okay... the displacement of (READING) ... is given by...looking at the function of y ... Let's see...I guess it'll be a lot smaller than the wave I drew, because the first time x is zero, because e raised to the zero's going to be 1.... And then as x increases, ... e raised to the negative... So, if x keeps on getting bigger, e raised to the negative of that is going to keep on getting smaller. So the So the actual function's going to be a lot smaller"