Monday 17 August 2015

Inverse square law on Goats Water


This shows a stone thrown into Goats Water beneath Dow Crag. The ripples spread out. It reminded me of the inverse square law for light. As the radius of the circle doubles, the area quadruples. This would mean that the density of any energy inside the circle would quarter. It's normally done as an expanding sphere where the energy is on the surface of the sphere.