Homemade Seismometers

On Monday of this week we continued our discussions about seismic waves by creating homemade seismometers. A seismometer is a device that measures motion in the earth; however, the seismometers that we created were designed to measure motion of a table (downscale). Our seismometers consisted of very simple materials that included a shoebox, paper, plastic…

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P-Waves and S-Waves

In class we have been studying about earthquakes and the different types of waves that can occur during an earthquake. In this post you will notice two different types of waves demonstrated (P-waves and S-waves). Both of these waves are considered body waves. In our experiment, we had one person moving the slinky while the…

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