CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Wave Properties
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate behaviors of waves, including interference, reflection, refraction, and diffraction.
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Institute of Physics: Practical Physics
Access hundreds of teacher-tested, practical physics lessons on this well-organized, illustrated site. Find just the right demonstration, attention-grabber, or lab for any physics teaching objective at your fingertips.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Transverse Waves
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explore the characteristics and behaviors of energy transferred by transverse waves.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Physics: Electricity and Magnetism
College-level physics course highlighting electromagnetism. This course also includes a wide variety of other physics topics including lightning, electrocardiograms, metal detectors, and atom smashers, to name a few. Course includes a...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1907
At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can read about the scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1907, Albert A. Michelson (1852-1931 CE). Here, you can read a detailed biography which provides information on Michelson's...
University of New South Wales (Australia)
University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physclips:the Nature of Light
Physiclips thoroughly presents mechanics concepts about light with animations and film clips. Learn about light and color, wavelengths, speed of light, electromagnetic waves, Young's experiment, and photons.
University of New South Wales (Australia)
University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physclips: Interference
Physiclips thoroughly presents interference of waves with animations and film clips.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Physics Tutorial: Waves: The Wave Equation
This physics tutorial attempts to explain the wave equation in a three-part example problem.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Reflecting Waves
This lab is designed to help students visualize the progress of a wave down a string and the way the wave pulse reflects from different boundaries.
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Byju's: Physics: Reflection of Waves
Explains what happens to a wave when it hits a fixed end or a free end.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Waves: Traveling Waves vs. Standing Waves
Students discover the difference between traveling and standing waves in this physics tutorial.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Test Prep: Mcat: Physical Processes: Sound Is a Longitudinal Wave
Discusses the physics of how sound travels. Includes a video of a volcanic eruption that demonstrates the speed of sound waves.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Waves and Sound: Standing Wave Patterns Interactive
Students investigate the formation of standing waves, the vibrational patterns associated with the various harmonics, and the difference between transverse and longitudinal standing waves.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Characteristics of Waves
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers three types of mechanical waves - transverse, longitudinal, and surface - and their characteristics. Includes labeled illustrations and two video animations.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Mechanical Wave
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What a mechanical wave is and what it travels through, and different types of mechanical waves.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Waves: Categories of Waves
This physics tutorial helps students categorize waves based on distinguishing, observable characteristics.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Sound Is a Mechanical Wave
This interactive physics tutorial allows students to investigate the nature, properties and behaviors of sound waves and apply basic wave principles towards an understanding of music.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Radio Waves
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Radio waves and how they are used for AM and FM radio and television.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Traveling Waves vs. Standing Waves
Traveling and standing waves are thoroughly explained through the use of drawings and animation.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: The Wave Equation
A thorough explanation of the wave equation (Speed = Wavelength * Frequency). A data table and questions to check one's understanding are also part of this lesson.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves
An explanation of and animation depicting the propagation of an electromagnetic wave through a material medium.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Properties of Electromagnetic Waves
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The speed of electromagnetic waves, their wavelengths and frequencies and how to calculate wavelength or wave frequency.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Sound Wave Problem
Determine the speed of a sound wave through an alien atmosphere. You must also find the frequency of the wave source and the wavelength of the wave.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Waves: Waves and Wavelike Motion
Here is an introduction to the concept of waves and wavelike motion people experience anywhere and everywhere.
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