Waves on a beach

Friday 14 May 2021

Mayssen is writing her EE on water waves, she wanted to analyse waves on a beach (she's from Morocco). But how do you measure changing wavelength from a photo taken from the land? The perspective messes everything up. Here's how, use GeoGebra to map rays from the photo onto the water. Here you can see the wavelength decreasing as the beach is approached, even though the photo looks like it's the other way round.