Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!rutgers!sri-unix!hplabs!hpcea!hpfcdc!hpfclp!robert
From: robert@hpfclp.HP.COM (Robert Heckendorn)
Newsgroups: sci.physics
Subject: rock in a pond
Message-ID: <4650001@hpfclp.HP.COM>
Date: Mon, 10-Nov-86 13:33:18 EST
Article-I.D.: hpfclp.4650001
Posted: Mon Nov 10 13:33:18 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Nov-86 20:24:51 EST
Organization: H-P Fort Collins
Lines: 12

I am not a physicist.  I was pondering this question and don't know the answer.
If one lets a ball drop it bounces.  Its frequency slowly increasing as the
ball looses energy.  If one tosses a rock into a pond, at the point of
impact the water oscillates up and down.  I assume also at increasing frequency
and decreasing amplitude, yes?  And now for the real question.  If this is so
then I assume that the waves spreading out from the point of impact are at
decreasing distance.  Is this so?  Also, what determines the speed of the waves?
I am real tempted to get a rock, toss it in to a pond, take a picture 
and measure the results.

			-Robert Heckendorn
			hplabs!hpfcla!robert