A series of graphics, downloadable animations and text describe and explain the motion of a pendulum. Some sections require an understanding of calculus.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students use radical equations to solve area and volume problems.

A series of thought-intensive, multichoice questions concerning pendulums and provided for by the University of Maryland. A downloadable software program on pendulums is also included.

Students must calculate the spring constant of a spring based on the oscillation graph that is created by an oscillating mass.

This program gives students a visual representation of a wave as a line of masses that are oscillating out of step. Each oscillating mass will affect the oscillation of the wave next to it.

This lab will allow students to investigate how the motion of a real object on a spring differs from the idealized version by introducing damping to the situation.

This lab is designed to have students calibrate an oscillating spring. They will develop a calibration equation to relate the frequency of oscillation to the mass on the spring. They will then test their equation by determining the mass...

This lab will allow students to investigate the factors that affect the amplitude, frequency, period and/or angular frequency of a frictionless hovercraft oscillating on a horizontal surface.

This lab will allow students to investigate the relationships that govern the frequency of oscillation for a mass on a spring.

A practice site for students to compare motion graphs of two spring-mass systems.

This seven-problem quiz/practice helps students understand what Hooke's law is and how to use it in hair simulation.

This digital textbook covers core physics concepts and includes interactive features, real world examples, videos, and study guides.

Practice solving for the frequency, mass, period, and spring constant for a spring-mass system.

A discussion of the composition of complex sounds produced by a musical instrument. Good illustration of how music is applied to physics. Quite a bit of good information, several pages linked together with good definitions as well as...

A collection of video lectures from a physics course focusing on vibration and waves taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The course overviews topics dealing with mechanical vibration and waves with twenty-three lectures....

A collection of video lectures from a fundamentals of physics course taught at Yale University. The course is an introduction to physics and discusses Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, gravity, thermodynamics, and waves. Course...

This is a fantastic site that teaches basic music reading, especially as related to the guitar. Although the site is a promotional software site, the trial version is excellent by itself.

Understand how trigonometric functions can model periodic behavior. See the application of periodic behavior, amplitude, frequency in sound waves. Make sure to turn up your sound to load an audio file to play the given tone of the...

This site contains links to articles that explain how musical instruments work, describes vocal mechanics, and the three main vocal groups.

Virtual laboratory provides five hands-on experiments at rigid pendula.

Written by Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome is a fascinating novella that is looked at in depth in this interesting and informative site.

During this project, students will be asked to design a device that will measure out a time period of exactly 3 minutes. They will be asked to brainstorm ideas using the different materials provided. Students will observe and explain the...

Physiologist and anatomist Margaret Reed Lewis (1881-1970), an authority on tumors, had served as an assistant to Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia and then worked as a research collaborator in the embryology department of the Carnegie...

This site from Teoria's Books offers a short, easy to read article on Key Signatures. An interactive keyboard makes the learning more fun.