Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Why S Waves Only Travel in Solids
Explains why S-waves will only travel in solids.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Waves and Optics: Doppler Effect Formula for Observed Frequency
Discover waves and optics by learning about the Doppler effect formula for observed frequency. [10:13]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Waves and Optics:doppler Effect Formula When Source Is Moving Away
Learn about waves and optics by discovering the doppler effect formula when source is moving away. [9:18]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Inverse Square Law
This animation from KET's distance learning physics course demonstrates the mathematical formula for a scientific law as it applies to light.
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Wave Speed
In the following video Paul Andersen explains how the wave speed measure the speed of a wave through a medium. The medium determines the speed of the wave. The velocity of the wave is equal to the product of the wavelength and the...
Crash Course
Crash Course Physics #17: Traveling Waves
Waves are cool. The more we learn about waves, the more we learn about a lot of things in physics. Everything from earthquakes to music! Ropes can tell us a lot about how traveling waves work so, in this video episode of Crash Course...
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Buildings & Bedrock: Effects of Amplification & Liquefaction
Animation explores how 3 buildings engineered equally on different bedrock will react to an earthquake. [1:25]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Earthquake Wave Analogies: Like Ripples on Water
In this animation, Dr. Geophysics compares seismic waves to ripples in water and helps explain how they are alike. He also guides you through the simple physics of potential energy and energy release. [1:47]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Earthquake Wave Analogies: Unlike Ripples On/in Water
In this animation, Dr. Geophysics compares seismic waves to ripples in water and helps explain 4 significant differences. [1:48]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Seismic Shadow Zone: Basic Introduction
Understand the basics of how P and S waves create the seismic shadow zones. [1:48]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Seismic Wave Behavior: Critically Refracted Rays
How are wave paths determined? Which wave paths are the fastest? Find out with the help of this brief video. [0:43]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Seismic Wave Behavior: Critically Refracted Rays Ping Arrivals
A brief video will illustrate how a ping announces refracted seismic waves. [0:34]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Seismograph: Horizontal
A brief animation which illustrates how a horizontal seismograph works. A seismograph measures wave activity. [0:19]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Seismograph: Vertical
This short clip will illustrate how a seismograph measures vertical motion in the Earth. [0:14]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Seismograph: Vertical (Slow Motion)
A "quick" slow motion clip illustrates how a seismograph measures the vertical motion of S and P waves. [0:13]
Other
Study.com: Reflection of Waves Definition & Examples
A video with definitions and examples of reflection and refraction. An optional post quiz also included.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Science Bulletins: Mapping the Heat Beneath
As seismic waves from earthquakes pass through the planet, their patterns can reveal hidden dynamics-hotspots, deep-diving rock, melting mantle-in Earth's interior. An array of seismometers that's being installed across the United States...
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: 1 Component Seismogram: Building Responds to P, S, Surface Waves
Seismic waves travel through the earth to a single seismic station. Scale and movement of the seismic station are greatly exaggerated to depict the relative motion recorded by the seismogram as P, S, and surface waves arrive. [0:50]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Seismic Waves and How We Know Earth's Structure: Seismic Waves
Video lecture explores S-waves and P-waves. [8:38]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Seismic Waves and Earth's Structure: Refraction of Seismic Waves
Explains how any type of wave can be refracted, and how this applies to seismic waves and to our understanding of the Earth's structure. [9:21]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sound and Solids: Stereo Hangers
This video segment, adapted from ZOOM, explores how sound waves travel differently through solids than through air, in this case, a metal clothes hanger. [1:14]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Waves and Optics: Introduction to Waves
Introduction to transverse and longitudinal waves.