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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.
Vision Learning
Vision Learning: Physics: Waves and Wave Motion
Instructional module focusing on waves and wave motion. Discussion includes wave theories, wave basics, and wave speed. The site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Physics Exam Prep: Waves
Students explore traveling waves and wave propagation. The resource links to courses with videos, online textbook materials, simulations, and practice problems.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Violin
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about wave harmonics on a string by looking closely at the sound produced by a violin. Test string tension with harmonic number on violin strings in a simulated practice. Understand sound waves...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Electromagnetic Waves
Through informational text, interactive activities, practice problems, and virtual simulations, students explore the properties of electromagnetic waves.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Waves
Through informational text, interactive activities, and practice problems, students learn about the properties of waves, and how they transfer energy.
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Physics: Light Ii: Electromagnetism
Instructional module focusing on light and electromagnetism. Discussion includes historical discoveries that led to the understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Wave Properties From Graph 1
Determine the wavelength and amplitude of a wave based on the vertical position vs. horizontal position graph.
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Physics: Light I: Particle or Wave
Instructional module focusing on light. Discussion includes historical development of particle versus wave theories and the scientific studies leading to the understanding of light waves today. Site also includes an interactive practice...
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 Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Wave Properties From Graph 3
Determine the speed of a wave based on reading the vertical position vs. time graph simultaneously with the vertical position vs. horizontal position graph.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Wave Equation
This program asks students to determine the variables in a wave equation. Students must determine wavelength, frequency, and amplitude.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Waves: Nodes and Anti Nodes
Through interactive practice problems and illustrations, students explore nodes and antinodes in standing waves.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Waves: Boundary Behavior
Through illustrated examples, video clips, and practice problems, students explore what happens to waves at the boundary of different mediums.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Sound Intensity Problem
In this problem you must determine the intensity of a sound wave when it reaches a given location away from its source.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Read the Oscilloscope Challenge
Practice reading an oscilloscope. Students must achieve a score or 10 or more. At the end students should be able to get frequency, period, voltage and peak to peak voltage.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Analyzing the Interference of Sound Waves and Beats
A site for students to practice viewing two sound waves interference and analyze the patterns formed.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Physics (Combined Science)
This site provides a list of the topics and links to the Physics (Combined Science)courses offered in GCSE Bitesize and a list of contents of each. The topics include the following: Energy, Electricity, Matter, Radioactivity, Forces,...
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Diffraction
This physics department site provides links about the diffraction of light. Each page includes thorough explanations and meaningful graphics. Some pages include interactive problem-solving practice sections.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Physics Tutorial: Waves: The Speed of a Wave
With sample data, equations, and practice problems, students explore the concept of wave speed.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Wave Properties From Graph 2
Determine the period, frequency and amplitude of the wave that produced the position vs. time graph shown below.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Wave: Mathematics of Standing Waves
Students analyze harmonic patterns through several example problems and interactive practice examples.
Learn AP Physics
Learn Ap Physics: Physics B: Waves
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,...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Open End Air Columns
Through illustrated diagrams and interactive practice examples, students explore the physics of sound in open-end air column musical instruments.