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.
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.
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 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.
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 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,...
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Speed of Sound
Physics tutorial on measuring the speed of sound in dry air. An interactive form allows the student to practice solving problems involving the temperature dependence of the speed of sound.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: The Speed of Sound
Students discover factors that affect the speed of sound waves through a medium with illustrated examples and interactive practice problems.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Interference and Beats
Illustrated diagrams and interactive practice problems show constructive and destructive interference occurring at sound beats.
Other
Universidad Del Pais Vasco: Curso Interactivo De Fisica en Internet
This is a general Physics course from simple concepts such as the rectilinear movement to more complex as the energy bands of solids. Interactivity is achieved by the 646 applets embedded in web pages that are simulations of physical...
Learn AP Physics
Learn Ap Physics: Physics B: Modern Physics
A site dedicated to help students prepare for the AP Physics B test. This specific site reviews Modern Physics including photons, photoelectric effect, atomic energy levels, The Michelson-Morley experiment, The Lorentz Transformation,...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Harmonic Motion
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore periodic motion and simple harmonic motion by watching video clips, manipulating interactives, and solving practice problems.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Frequency for Standing Waves on a String
Determine the frequency needed to produced a given harmonic on a string with a given length, mass and tension.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Optics
Students discover how mirrors affect optics in this module through reading informational text, watching animations, and answering self-checking practice questions.