Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Oscillatory Motion and Waves: Problems and Exercises
This is a list of problems and exercises to solve based on the content of Chapter 16: Oscillatory Motion and Waves from the AP Physics online text.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Oscillatory Motion and Waves: Summary
This page provides a summary for each section of Chapter 16: Oscillatory Motion and Waves from the AP Physics online text.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Oscillatory Motion and Waves: Conceptual Questions
This is a list of 18 questions covering the major concepts in Chapter 16: Oscillatory Motion and Waves from the AP Physics online text.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Waves
Take an interactive quiz over energy waves. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
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.
Pennsylvania State University
Kettering University: The Simple Harmonic Oscillator
The motion of three simple harmonic oscillators is animated to illustrate the effects of mass and spring constant upon the motion. Several equations and a lengthy discussion accompany the animations.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Make Some Waves
In this activity, students use their own creativity (and their bodies) to make longitudinal and transverse waves. Through the use of common items, they will investigate the different between longitudinal and transverse waves.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Transverse and Longitudinal Waves
The physics tutorial illustrates and explains the distinction between transverse and longitudinal waves. Related links provided.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Analyzing Energy for a Simple Harmonic Oscillator From Data Tables
Use your knowledge of simple harmonic oscillator to analyze energy from experimental data with these practice problems.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Experimenting With Sound/compression Waves Through Vibration
Through inquiry, students will use various objects/materials attached to strings to investigate how vibration causes sounds waves.
University of Maryland
Thinking Problems in Oscillations and Waves: Mass on a S
A series of thought-intensive, multichoice questions from the University of Maryland concerning masses on springs. A downloadable software program on the topic is also included.
Walter Fendt
Walter Fendt: Apps Zur Physik
This site, in German, offers numerous apps that illustrate common physics principles. Apps are organized into categories: mechanics, oscillations and waves, electrodynamics, optics, thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, physics of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Calculating Frequency for Harmonics of a Standing Wave
Practice calculating the oscillation frequency for different harmonics of a standing wave.
University of New South Wales (Australia)
University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physiclips
Concepts of waves and sound are thoroughly presented in animation and film clips.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Radiowaves and Electromagnetic Fields
Broadcast radio waves from KPhET. Wiggle the transmitter electron manually or have it oscillate automatically. Display the field as a curve or vectors. The strip chart shows the electron positions at the transmitter and at the receiver.
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Physics Iii: Vibrations and Waves
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....
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Visualizing a Wave as a Line of Oscillating Objects
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Oscillatory Motion and Waves: Damped Harmonic Motion
By the end of this section, you will be able to compare and discuss underdamped and overdamped oscillating systems and explain critically damped systems.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Understanding the Motion of a Harmonic Oscillator
An interactive lecture demonstration where learners are guided to a full conceptual understanding of harmonic motion. This lecture and collection of demonstrations and simulations are intended for introducing the concepts of wave...
University of Maryland
Thinking Problems in Oscillations and Waves: Pendulum
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Energy and the Simple Harmonic Oscillator
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.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Quartic Oscillator Model
A model showing the movement of a bead on a horizontal rod, with symmetric springs on each side. A phase-space chart is shown alongside the model.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Anisotropic Oscillator Model
In this simulation an object is attached to two strings under tension on opposite sides of it. The object's starting position and the strings' lengths can be altered. The path of the object when it is released is traced on an...