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Pulse over trough edge
W-b2m



A slinky lies in a tilted channel raised above the table; pulling one point of the slinky onto the table causes a pulse to propagate along the channel, in mechanical analog to nerve conduction along axons.


PIRA DCS classification:   3B25.601

Physics Lecture Demonstrations at the Department of Physics and Astronomy
The Johns Hopkins University