Discusses the physics of how sound travels. Includes a video of a volcanic eruption that demonstrates the speed of sound waves.

Review the characteristics of periodic transverse and longitudinal waves such as wavelength, crest, trough, amplitude, expansion, and compression.

To understand how bounded waves behave and how reflection of waves affects the wave components.

Overview of key terms and skills for waves, including how to identify longitudinal and transverse waves.

With this article, students can learn about and understand the concept of wave motion.

This article helps illustrate the behavior of electrons as waves and the uncertainty principle.

Read about a math research project done by three college students which helps us see physics and math in music. Here's a great approach for integrating curriculum!

Described is a simple low cost home-made device that converts the radio wave energy from a mobile phone signal into electricity to light an LED. No battery or complex circuitry is required. The device can form the basis of a range of...

Learn about the discovery of gravitational waves made from two black holes colliding over a billion years ago!

The interference of two sets of circular waves with the same frequency and the same amplitude results in a standing wave pattern. These standing wave patterns are known as two-point source interference patterns since they result from the...

Review the key terms and skills related to wave interference, including how to predict wave interference patterns.

Review key terms and skills related to standing waves including how to find standing wave harmonics.

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

Describes the physics behind animals' ability to dry themselves by shaking to remove water.

In this article the concept of vibrational motion and its relationship to waves is introduced.

This article discusses the properties of electromagnetic radiation and photons.

Introduce some activities that introduce students to the physics of sound. They will also learn how various instruments produce sound. Included are downloadable pdf worksheets and answer sheets to use.

This essay from the NOVA Web site explores the impact Einstein made on physics and most everything we know about the cosmos.

Here is described a simple process to 'put a voice on a sunbeam' and transmit it over a distance. It is a fascinating example of amplitude modulation of light using sound vibrations. It then describes how the modulated light is detected...

Review the key terms and skills for sound waves, including how to identify the nodes and antinodes for standing waves in tubes.

Find out about a German nuclear physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 for his work in study of nuclear reactions, the Compton effect, cosmic rays, and the wave-particle duality of radiation.

Students learn about the properties of light as a photon and the wave-particle duality.

Read about the life and work of this Austrian physicist and philosopher, known for his contributions to physics with the Mach number and the study of shock waves.

Article goes into detail about what exactly is interference.