Physiclips thoroughly presents interference of waves with animations and film clips.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This guide gives a detailed overview of mechanical waves and the characteristics of waves. Covers wave behavior, including types of interference, resonance, and the...

Students investigate the formation of standing waves, the vibrational patterns associated with the various harmonics, and the difference between transverse and longitudinal standing 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.

A physics site, it describes aspects of waves, like the sine wave The explaination is good and it illustrates the connection between mathematics and physics.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What wave amplitude is and how to measure it, and what determines the amplitude of a 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.

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.

[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.

Traveling and standing waves are thoroughly explained through the use of drawings and animation.

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.

A study guide for concepts related to wave optics.

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

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The wave-particle theory and what a photon is, and evidence that electromagnetic radiation is both a particle and a wave.

[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.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of wave speed and how it is related to wavelength and wave frequency, how to calculate wave speed and how it is related to the medium of a wave.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What a transverse wave is, its crests and troughs and what an S wave is.

Manipulate this virtual slinky that consists of a collection of dots to represent its coils. Grab a coil, and shake it back and forth to create vibrations which travel through the slinky from the location where it is shook to the ends...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of wave frequency and how it is related to the energy of a wave.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What wave interference is, constructive and destructive interference and how standing waves occur.

Through interactive practice problems and illustrations, students explore nodes and antinodes in standing waves.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Provides the definition of an electromagnetic wave, electromagnetic radiation, and electric and magnetic fields. Also discusses how electromagnetic waves begin,...

An in-depth encyclopedia article from Wikipedia on waves gives a definition for what a wave is. Other content in the article includes a list of examples and characteristics of waves, information about the difference between transverse...

An explanation of and animation depicting the propagation of an electromagnetic wave through a material medium.