POSSIBLE POINTS: 12 Performance Task #2
Armand is monitoring a large sealed tank by way of a sensor that records the liquid level over time on a graph. He looks at the graph and
claims that the sensor indicates there are waves in the liquid in the tank.
Tank Liquid Level vs. Time
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0.5
1.0
1.5
Time (s)
ANSWER PART 1 PART 2 AND PART 3:
• PART 1: EXPLAIN how Armand knows that there is a wave in the tank.
• PART 2: FIND the amplitude, in centimeters, and frequency, in cycles per second, of the wave.
• PART 3: Waves transmit energy from one place to another. IDENTIFY two properties of waves that affect the energy transmitted by a
wave