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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Wave Properties

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate behaviors of waves, including interference, reflection, refraction, and diffraction.
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Website
Other

Institute of Physics: Practical Physics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Physics: Electricity and Magnetism

For Students 9th - 10th
College-level physics course highlighting electromagnetism. This course also includes a wide variety of other physics topics including lightning, electrocardiograms, metal detectors, and atom smashers, to name a few. Course includes a...
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Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Energy Transport and the Amplitude of a Wave

For Students 9th - 10th
The energy transport phenomenon and amplitude are explored in this lesson. Questions are found at the end of the lesson to check understanding of the concepts presented.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Waves: Categories of Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
This physics tutorial helps students categorize waves based on distinguishing, observable characteristics.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Waves: What Is a Wave?

For Students 9th - 10th
Students examine how waves are described in a manner that allows us to understand their basic nature and qualities.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science for Middle School

For Students 6th - 8th
This digital textbook covers core physical science concepts and includes interactive features, real world examples, and videos.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Science: Light and Optics

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will investigate the properties of light waves. They will learn about the different types of electromagnetic waves and mechanical waves, and investigate the phenomena of reflection, refraction, interference, and diffraction.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Waves and Sound

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will understand and predict wave phenomena, and investigate the energy contained in waves. They will gain a deeper understanding of waves and wave interference that will enable characterization and engineering of matter from the...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Oscillatory Motion and Waves: Summary

For Students 11th - 12th
This page provides a summary for each section of Chapter 16: Oscillatory Motion and Waves from the AP Physics online text.
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Physics (Combined Science)

For Students 9th - 10th
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,...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Science: Waves and Sound

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module, students investigate the properties and behavior of different types of waves.
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PPT
John Wiley & Sons

Wiley: Physical Geography: Animation: Wave Refraction

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief animation that demonstrates the impact of waves on headlands and on bays explaining how waves shape sea arches and beaches.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Energy and the Simple Harmonic Oscillator

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to describe the changes in energy that occur while a system undergoes simple harmonic motion.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Transverse Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explore the characteristics and behaviors of energy transferred by transverse waves.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Waves: Energy Transport and the Amplitude of a Wave

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore the energy transport phenomenon that transports energy along a medium without transporting matter.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Waves, Sound and Light: Longitudinal Pulse

For Students 9th - 10th
The animation portrays a medium as a series of particles connected by springs. In this type of longitudinal wave the particles of the medium vibrate in a direction parallel to the direction of energy transport.
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Handout
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of and animation depicting the propagation of an electromagnetic wave through a material medium.
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Online Course
Yale University

Open Yale Courses: Physics 200: Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
This lecture includes discussion on various factors affecting waves. Topics addressed include velocity, intensity, energy and frequency. Several examples are given to clarify each topic. The lecture is available in video, audio or...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Wave Frequency

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of wave frequency and how it is related to the energy of a wave.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Wavelength

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What wavelength is and how it relates to the energy of a wave.
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Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Pendulum Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial investigates pendulum motion and how a variety of quantities change over the course of time. Such quantities will include forces, position, velocity and energy - both kinetic and potential energy. Take the interactive...
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Unit Plan
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Motion of a Mass on a Spring

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial investigates the motion of a mass on a spring and how a variety of quantities change over the course of time. Such quantities will include forces, position, velocity and energy - both kinetic and potential energy. Take the...
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eBook
Other

Wikibooks: Physics Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
A handy resource that gives an overview of equations and definitions pertinent to an introductory, college-level physics course, with two of its three sections focusing on motion-related topics and principles.