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Hooke's Law, Vibrations, Mechanical Waves, and Sound
Dangle a spring to experiment with vibration and discover if period is dependent on amplitude. Strum a guitar and adjust the strings to compare displacement and sound. Use a Slinky® and guitar strings on a ring stand to uncover the...
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Waves: the Nature of Waves
Each of the slides has some information or a few definitions about the travel of energy through different media. There are references given to obtain further information, which makes this slideshow a great tool for introduction or as a...
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What Are Waves?
In this types of waves learning exercise, students will read 9 types of waves and classify them as either mechanical, electromagnetic, transverse, or compressional waves. Then students will label two wave diagrams with the 8 kinds of...