Resumen de On the g/2 acceleration of a pulse in a vertical chain

Theodore Foster, Willem van Wyngaarden, Arthur Cary, John Mottmann

• We have frequently enhanced our department's laboratory experiment involving standing transverse waves in a taut horizontal cord. In addition to the standard experiment, students in these labs investigate the surprising concept that the acceleration of a pulse in a chain hanging vertically is a constant and is equal to half the acceleration of gravity.