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My Physics Lab: Single Spring
Experiment with a spring that is connected to a wall to see what happens to the oscillation when you change the mass, spring stiffness, or damping. Students can also change the starting position. Site includes equations to help students...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Waves and Sound: Mass on a Spring Interactive
Students can investigate with this realistic, richly-interactive environment for investigating the periodic motion of a mass on a spring.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Pendulum Lab
This lab is designed to have students investigate the factors that affect the rate at which a pendulum oscillates. Students can change the length of the pendulum, the angle of release, and the heavenly body on which the pendulum is...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Properties of Periodic Motion
In Physics, a motion that is regular and repeating is referred to as a periodic motion. Most objects that vibrate do so in a regular and repeated fashion; their vibrations are periodic. Learn more here about periodic motion and take the...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Motion of a Mass on a Spring
This tutorial investigates the motion of a mass on a spring and how a variety of quantities change over the course of time. Such quantities will include forces, position, velocity and energy - both kinetic and potential energy. Take the...
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Transverse and Longitudinal Waves
The physics tutorial illustrates and explains the distinction between transverse and longitudinal waves. Related links provided.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Waves: Frequency and Period of a Wave
Students are introduced to the concept of frequency as it relates to periodic wave motion.
Pennsylvania State University
Kettering University: Vibration & Waves
A short tutorial providing general information about waves, their categories, properties and behaviors. Includes several animations and some practice questions with answers.
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Mechanical Vibrations
A collection of video lectures from a course on mechanical vibrations. Webpage includes forty lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. Lectures vary in length and cover topics like harmonic...
University of Maryland
Thinking Problems in Oscillations and Waves
A series of thought-provoking, multichoice questions from the University of Maryland on the topic of oscillations and waves. Equations for calculating the period of motion for masses on springs, pendulums, sounds, and waves on a string...
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Dan Sloughter: Trigonometric Series Approximations
Understand how trigonometric functions can model periodic behavior. See the application of periodic behavior, amplitude, frequency in sound waves. Make sure to turn up your sound to load an audio file to play the given tone of the...
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Wave on a String
Create a wavelength using periodic motion.
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University of Winnipeg: The Simple Pendulum
The periodic motion of a pendulum is described with words and equations; little conceptual emphasis. Sample problems with solutions are provided.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Types of Motion
Learn about the study of mechanics, motion, the laws of motion, and the different types of motions.