Propagation of Gravity Waves through Periodic Media

The visualization of quantum mechanics tends to be difficult for new students and current quantum analogs do not do just in providing a clear picture of what quantum mechanics looks like. In this work, we have investigated the interaction of gravity waves and periodic media using a ripple tank. Through these interactions, we have found analogs for many of the introductory quantum mechanics cases, more specifically, the potential barrier, step potential, particle in a box, etc. We have shown through calculation that what we see in our ripple tank is analogous to what one would expect from a quantum mechanics scenario.