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Curated Video
Exploring Vibrations and Waves
This video breaks down the complex mechanics of sound and how sound travels. Students learn about vibration and sound waves, and even get to test their own instruments!
Curated Video
The Science of Sound: How Sound Waves Reach Your Brain
This video explains how sound waves travel through the air, solids, and liquids to reach our ears. It explores how vibrations create sound waves, which are collected by our ears and make our eardrums vibrate. Our brain recognizes these...
Bozeman Science
Mechanical and Electromagnetic Waves
In this video Paul Andersen compares and contrasts mechanical and electromagnetic waves. Both types of waves transfer energy through oscillations but mechanical waves requires a medium. Several examples of each type of wave are included.
Visual Learning Systems
Vibrations and Waves: Video Review
This program explores the fascinating features of vibrations and waves. Vivid examples of these phenomenon help students understand how sounds are formed, how light travels, and how ocean waves move. Special attention is also given to...
Curated Video
GCSE Physics - Sound Waves and Hearing #73
This video covers: - How sound waves travel through materials - The idea that sound waves are longitudinal - How wavelength changes with speed - The structure of the human ear and how it works - How the range of human hearing changes...
Wonderscape
Exploring Characteristics of Sound Waves
Discover the characteristics of sound waves, including wavelength, frequency, and pitch. Learn about the Doppler effect and its impact on sound perception. Explore how acoustics influence building design and sound control. Sound part 3
FuseSchool
Sound Waves In Action
Sound Waves In Action | Waves | Physics | FuseSchool Did you know that birdsong is a disturbance? In this video we will look at how sound waves travel and see them in action: how a Ruben’s tube shows sound waves and how the human ear...
Visual Learning Systems
Vibrations and Waves: Vibrations and Sound
This program explores the fascinating features of vibrations and waves. Vivid examples of these phenomenon help students understand how sounds are formed, how light travels, and how ocean waves move. Special attention is also given to...
Visual Learning Systems
Vibrations and Waves: Introduction
This program explores the fascinating features of vibrations and waves. Vivid examples of these phenomenon help students understand how sounds are formed, how light travels, and how ocean waves move. Special attention is also given to...
Curated Video
Pitch and Loudness: Investigating Sound Waves on an Oscilloscope
This video explains how sound waves can be displayed on an oscilloscope and how the amplitude and frequency of the waveform relate to the loudness and pitch of the sound. The video uses examples of different sound waves and the...
Visual Learning Systems
Vibrations and Waves: Waves in Action
This program explores the fascinating features of vibrations and waves. Vivid examples of these phenomenon help students understand how sounds are formed, how light travels, and how ocean waves move. Special attention is also given to...
DoodleScience
Transverse and Longitudinal Waves _ GCSE Physics
Waves are vibrations that transfer energy from place to place without matter being transferred. Think of a Mexican wave in a football crowd: the wave moves around the stadium, while each spectator stays in their seat only moving up then...
Curated Video
Catching a Sound Wave
The video “Catching a Sound Wave'' gives a general overview of how sound waves travel, with a focus on the phenomenon of echoes and how they are used in nature and science.
Wonderscape
Exploring Sound: Understanding its Nature and Transmission
Dive into the world of sound and learn about its properties, production, and transmission. Discover how vibrations create sound waves and how they travel through different mediums. Sound part 1
Visual Learning Systems
Sound: Interactions of Sound Waves
When you hear the roar of traffic, the bark of a dog, or your teacher's voice, you are experiencing sound. This program uses colorful animations to explore important characteristics of sound, including intensity, loudness, pitch, and...
FuseSchool
Transverse & Longitudinal Waves
Waves transfer energy from one place to another. You should already know how to describe them in terms of frequency, wavelength and amplitude In this video we’re going to look at the two ways they can be classified. Waves are produced as...
Curated Video
If a Tree Falls with No One Around, Does It Make a Sound? A Physics Perspective
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Philosopher George Berkeley asked this famous question in 1710, and people are still debating it. Where is the forest located. How is sound defined? What...
Curated Video
Can You Hear Sound in Space?
Space is full of radio waves, plasma waves, magnetic waves, gravitational waves, and shock waves, all of which can travel in space without a medium. These waves are recorded by instruments that can sense these waves, and the data is...
Curated Video
Resonance: How Sound Changes Across Different Mediums
Sounds can change as they move from one medium to another. Under the right circumstances the effect is surprising and extreme. Physics - Waves - Learning Points. Sound is a wave that is created by vibrating objects. Every object has a...
Science ABC
Can You Hear Sound in Space?
Space is full of radio waves, plasma waves, magnetic waves, gravitational waves, and shock waves, all of which can travel in space without a medium. These waves are recorded by instruments that can sense these waves, and the data is...
Curated Video
How does sound travel?
Sounds travel in waves. The world around us - Light and sound - Sound Learning Points Sounds are made by tiny movements called vibrations. Sound energy travels in waves. These vibrations travel out from the sound source in all...
Visual Learning Systems
Vibrations and Waves: Video Quiz
This program explores the fascinating features of vibrations and waves. Vivid examples of these phenomenon help students understand how sounds are formed, how light travels, and how ocean waves move. Special attention is also given to...
Visual Learning Systems
What Is Sound?: How Does Sound Travel?
Upon viewing the What is Sound video series, students will be able to do the following: Understand that sound is produced when matter vibrates. Explain that sound energy can travel through air, liquids, and solids, which are generally...
Visual Learning Systems
The Nature of Waves: Types of Waves
Upon viewing the The Nature of Waves video series, students will be able to do the following: Define waves as traveling disturbances that carry energy through matter or space. Explain that waves do not actually move matter. Instead,...