TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Measuring Distance With Sound Waves
Students learn about sound waves and use them to measure distances between objects. They explore how engineers incorporate ultrasound waves into medical sonogram devices and ocean sonar equipment. Students learn about properties, sources...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Quantum Tunneling and Wave Packets
Watch quantum "particles" tunnel through barriers. Explore the properties of the wave functions that describe these particles.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Waves Go Public!
Students apply everything they have learned over the course of the associated lessons about waves, light properties, the electromagnetic spectrum, and the structure of the eye, by designing devices that can aid color blind people in...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Learning Light's Properties
Students learn the basic properties of light--the concepts of light absorption, transmission, reflection and refraction, as well as the behavior of light during interference. Lecture information briefly addresses the electromagnetic...
Oklahoma Mesonet
Oklahoma Climatological Survey: Overview of Radiation
This site details what radiation is, the physics of radiation, and radiative transfer as it occurs in nature. Content explores the electromagnetic spectrum, electromagnetic waves, properties of radiation, and solar radiation.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Oscillator Chain Model
In this simulation a series of coupled oscillators in a chain with anchored ends can be investigated for their wave properties.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Light: Electromagnetic Waves, Electromagnetic Spectrum and Photons
This article discusses the properties of electromagnetic radiation and photons.
University of New South Wales (Australia)
University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physclips: Sound
Physiclips thoroughly presents the concept of sound with animations and film clips. Learn about the properties of sound and the physics behind sound waves with this site.
Physics Central
Physics Central: Physics at Your Desk: Drumming Fingers
An easy experiment through which students explore sound waves while tapping their fingers on a desk or table in a quiet room.
Middle School Science
Middle School Science: Tuning Fork Lab
In this succinct lesson plan, students will compare the sounds produced by tuning forks and observe the behavior of sound waves in different media.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Doppler Effect Model
A simulation of the Doppler Effect, where a change in wave frequency can be observed from the reference frame of the wave source, an observer, or the medium.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Properties of Waves
Kids learn about the properties waves in the science of physics including amplitude, wavelength, frequency, period, and speed.
Texas A&M University
Texas A&m University: Properties of the Ocean Activities
This site is from the Texas A&M University provides a lesson plan on measurement and properties of the ocean. As part of the instructional activity students are challenged to create a model of an underwater amusement park. Web...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Sound
Through multiple animations and interactive activities, this module allows students to investigate the properties of sound.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Physics/light
Here is a large collection of simple science class activities for understanding the physics of light.
Florida State University
Florida State University: Molecular Expressions: Electromagnetic Radiation
This Florida State University page introduces light as an electromagnetic wave and discusses the frequency and wavelength range of the various regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Includes links to some interactive Java applets.
Museum of Science
The Atom's Family: Radiometer
Help Dracula find out about light waves by using a virtual radiometer.
Other
University of Rhode Island: How Sounds Are Characterized
This resource explains how sound is characterized. It provides links to sound properties and their perception as well as properties of waves.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Heinrich Hertz
The discovery of radio waves, which was widely seen as confirmation of James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory and paved the way for numerous advances in communication technology, was made by German physicist Heinrich Hertz. In the...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Adding Sine Curves
This program gives students a way to combine waves together to see what properties the new wave will possess. It is helpful in looking at constructive and destructive interference. It can also illustrate beats and carrier waves.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Traveling Sound
Students explore how sound waves move through liquids, solids and gases in a series of simple sound energy experiments. Understanding the properties of sound and how sound waves travel helps engineers determine the best room shape and...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Electromagnetic Spectrum
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students learn what an electromagnetic wave is, gain a feel for the main parts of the spectrum, and work on problems involving basic properties of electromagnetic...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Energy, Light and Sound: Sound
A video and a short quiz on how sound travels in waves, its properties, and how to measure it.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Physical Science: Characteristics of Sound
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses sound waves and properties of sound.
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