Tsunami Demo

Tsunami Task, students design a structure to prevent Tsunami destruction

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Education

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• Physics
• Waves
• Projects
• Teaching

[BleachSamui97]

Hey, how did you do that barrier at 0:35? Great video btw :)

[tpokoyoway]

@BleachSamui97 It is essentially a berm barrier used to dissipate some of the waves initial energy thus reducing the impact on shore. Hope this helps.

[frozenpenguinful]

This is a good idea, but I was wondering if this actually shows what happens in a real tsunami?

[tpokoyoway]

@frozenpenguinful I believe it is a simplified version of an underwater plate shift causing water to travel from the point of displacement to the shore picking up speed and height as it reaches the shoreline. Just Google it.

[omgwtfroflmbo]

how did you measure the force or the difference between the control and the other experiments?

[tpokoyoway]

@omgwtfroflmbo It is hard to tell, but there is a little orange sponge in the corner on the rocks where the wave crashes up onto. So we set a dry sponge for each trial and measured how much water the sponge soaked up for each trial to determine how effective each trial was. Not very scientific, but good enough.

[tpokoyoway]

It is simply a underbed storage container filled with dyed water, rocks and seashells piled up on one end to simulate shore line. Then I took a plastic cutting board to simulate the underwater earthquake (by pulling up on it) to create the Tsunami wave. My students came up with the various methods to try to prevent the Tsunami from crashing up on the shore. They used the principles of refraction, reflection and diffraction from the Waves unit in the Science class. Hope this helps. Good luck.

[TheMinimouse15]

very inovative!!!!!!!

[BleachSamui97]

@tpokoyoway oohh ok. Also, how do you attach this things to the bottom of the container? Sorry for all the questions, its just that i have a science fair that is similar to this :)

[IsabelBieber]

Thank you do much ive been scrounging around looking for a good science project this is a great idea

[kooling97]

please respond if you see this how did you make the structurs and the ones that look like there made from skewers how did you weigh it to the bottom?

thank you,

kooling97

[omgwtfroflmbo]

@tpokoyoway thanks for the help.