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Woody Sine

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of sine. For this sine lesson, students create a sine graph from tooth picks. Students create a unit circle with tooth pick length radius. Students then take the tooth picks from the unit circle and put them...
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High or Low

For Students 9th - 12th
In this wave properties worksheet, students will experiment to see how the sound made by vibrating a ruler is affected by the length of the part that is vibrating. Then students will answer 5 questions based on the results of the...
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Harmonic Motion

For Students 9th - 12th
In this harmonic motion learning exercise, students read about repetitive motion, the parts of harmonic motion, and graphing harmonic motion. Students then complete 5 matching and 20 fill in the blank questions.
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The Science of Sound

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this explanation of sound learning exercise, learners discover what sound is, how different sounds are made, frequency, how sound travels, how we hear, and a summarization. In this physical science learning exercise, students answer...
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Sound

For Students 9th - 12th
In this sound learning exercise, students read about sound waves, how they are graphed, what frequency is and how it's related to pitch and the speed of sound. Students solve 8 sections of problems including matching terms related to...
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Waves Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th
For this frequency worksheet, students answer 10 questions about frequency and waves. The name of a teach appears at the top of this page.
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Hooke's Law, Vibrations, Mechanical Waves, and Sound

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Dangle a spring to experiment with vibration and discover if period is dependent on amplitude. Strum a guitar and adjust the strings to compare displacement and sound. Use a Slinky® and guitar strings on a ring stand to uncover the...
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Motion in the Ocean

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How does the formation of currents and waves in the ocean happen? High schoolers will learn about the primary causes for ocean currents and waves by calculating a wave's amplitude and nautical mile speed. Then they will complete a...
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Study Jams! Sound

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Listen in as Mia and Sam expound on sound. It is caused by vibrations and travels in waves. It has the qualities of pitch, frequency, and volume. This hip animation displays a graph to depict the frequency and amplitude of sound waves....
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Earthquakes Living Lab: Finding Epicenters and Measuring Magnitudes

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Pairs use an online simulation to determine the epicenter and magnitude of an earthquake. Using real data about the earthquake's maximum S wave amplitudes, they then determine the magnitude. The resource provides a great career...
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The Wave of the Future

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders discuss sine curves and enter equations into their graphing calculator then compare different graphs created on their calculators. They identify the period, amplitude and phase shift given the graph or the equation of a...
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MT-A141 PreCalculus: Worksheet 6.4

For Students 10th - 11th
In this precalculus learning exercise, students predict the graph of given functions and draw conclusions about each one. Students define a transformation, and determine the amplitude, period, phase shift and vertical shift of given...
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Functions

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this function worksheet, students solve 4 different types of equations related to functions. First, they determine a particular solution to the low pass and plot the input and output of the same axes and compare. Then, students...
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Translating Graphs of Trig Functions

For Students 10th - 12th
Students use degrees and compute the amplitude and period of twelve functions. They graph each function on an included coordinate grid.
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Waves Worksheet #2

For Students 6th - 8th
In this waves worksheet, students complete 7 fill in the blank questions regarding frequency, speed, amplitude and wavelength and how these properties relate to each other.
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Physics 240: Harmonic Waves

For Students Higher Ed
In this harmonic waves worksheet, students review the characteristics of harmonic traveling waves by solving 5 different problems.
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Violin

For Students 9th - 12th
Learners explore the science of sound by considering the characteristics that make unique sounds. Through an interactive simulation, they adjust tension and string size and view the corresponding wavelength and amplitude changes. 
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The Marina

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Breakwaters offer marinas and beaches protection from large ocean waves, but how do they work? Scholars observe wave patterns and wave amplitude during the simulation. They control the number of openings, width of openings, distance...
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Trigonometric Functions

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
From a circle to a cycle! The final lesson of a five-part series challenges learners to use points from the unit circle to plot a repeating pattern. The repeating patterns become the graphs of the trigonometric functions. Scholars also...
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Harmonic Motion 2

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this harmonic motion worksheet, students find the speed of a wave. Students determine the period, frequency, and equilibrium position of a pendulum. This worksheet has 13 problems to solve.
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Waves

For Students 9th - 12th
In this wave learning exercise, students will review the characteristics of waves which includes the parts of a wave, how waves are measured, and how waves are created. This learning exercise has 8 vocabulary used in a word puzzle, 5...
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Wave Terms and Concepts

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this waves worksheet, students define 23 vocabulary words associated with the different types of waves and how waves are measured. Students complete 23 matching terms with definitions and draw the superposition of two waves shown.
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Modelling Periodic Phenomena

For Students 11th - 12th
In this Pre-calculus/Trigonometry learning exercise, students determine the trigonometric function that best models the given data. The eight page learning exercise contains explanation, examples, and twenty-one problems. Answers are not...
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Waves Velocity & Particle Velocity

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this physics worksheet, students examine a single wave pulse which travels down a slinky. Then they sketch a single ring of the slinky as the wave goes by and determine whether the wave is constant or not.

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