A short tutorial providing general information about waves, their categories, properties and behaviors. Includes several animations and some practice questions with answers.

Explains what diffraction and interference are, and what kinds of patterns are produced when light waves pass through a single slit, a double slit, or a diffraction grating. Includes three problems for students to try, with solutions...

Explains single slit diffraction and models how to calculate different characteristics of the light waves.

Learn about the diffraction of light using the wave model and Huygen's principle.

A site dedicated to help students prepare for the AP Physics B test. This specific site reviews waves including traveling waves, standing waves, resonance, speed of electromagnetic waves, Doppler shift, Doppler effect, interference,...

A collection of video lectures from a physics course focusing on vibration and waves taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The course overviews topics dealing with mechanical vibration and waves with twenty-three lectures....

Kids learn about the behavior of waves in the science of physics including reflection, refraction, diffraction, polarization, absorption, and interference.

Kids learn about the behavior of light as a wave in the science of physics including reflection, refraction, and diffraction.

How light waves demonstrate their wave nature by reflection, refraction, and diffraction.

Students will investigate the properties of light waves. They will learn about the different types of electromagnetic waves and mechanical waves, and investigate the phenomena of reflection, refraction, interference, and diffraction.

An indexing page for a physics department site about the wave properties of light that lead to interference.

Short descriptions and graphics of three demonstrations which illustrate the diffraction phenomenon. Suitable as a supplement for a teacher lesson plan or as an idea-generator for a student project.

In this series of interactive physics tutorials, students will focus on the wavelike nature of light.

Students investigate an example of interference that provides further evidence in support of the wavelike behavior of light.

Acting as a subtopic of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook's section on Atoms and the Periodic Table, this site discusses wavelength and the uncertainty principle. Information is also provided on de Broglie wavelength and electron...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the interference and diffraction patterns that result when a wave passes through one or two thin openings using this interactive simulation. A PDF worksheet and a video tutorial are also...

This site has several lessons all about sound. It introduces sound, then covers major principles of waves and the wave equation. Each lesson has interactive activities to keep you interested, and there are even some test questions.

The discovery of radio waves, which was widely seen as confirmation of James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory and paved the way for numerous advances in communication technology, was made by German physicist Heinrich Hertz. In the...

This page and the many pages which are indexed to focus on the behaviors of sound which characterize it as a wave. Reflection, refraction, interference, diffraction and more are clearly illustrated and explained.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces fifth grade students to what sound waves do when they encounter an object. Topics covered include diffraction, reflection, absorption, and the Doppler Effect. An assessment is...

Simulate the original experiment that proved that electrons can behave as waves. Watch electrons diffract off a crystal of atoms, interfering with themselves to create peaks and troughs of probability. Java required.

Discusses the characteristics of sound waves and the conditions that affect the speed of sound.

Acting as a subtopic of the General Chemistry Virtual Textbook's section on Atoms and the Periodic Table, this site discusses wavelength and the uncertainty principle. Information is also provided on de Broglie wavelength and electron...

A collection of several pages explaining the principles which underlie Rayleigh scattering of light.