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Typical Conceptual Questions for Physics I - Waves, Electricity, and Magnetism
This wave and electromagnetism assignment is so thorough, it could be used as a unit exam. The first section of it covers wave concepts. The next section addresses static electricity. There is a section that deals with electric circuits....
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Typical Numeric Questions for Physics I - Waves
Physics masters figure out the wavelength of different waves. Looking at a wave graph, they identify different characteristics. Many more problems get them working with both electromagnetic and sound waves. There are a total of 17...
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Wave Practice Problems
Physics scholars list the properties of waves and calculate the speed, wavelength, and frequency of waves. The worksheet is concise, but covers a variety of wave computational skills. The formatting is neat, but it does have small...
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Waves & Currents
Challenge your young readers with a passage about physical science. After reading about sound waves and electric currents, kids answer five reading comprehension questions about what they have read.
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Waves, Sinusoids, and Identities
What is the net effect when two waves interfere with each other? The lesson plan answers this question by helping the class visualize waves through graphing. Pupils graph individual waves and determine the effect of the interference...
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Inferences of Waves
Building on the previous lesson, scholars use Slinkies to create standing waves. They graph waves on a calculator and then apply their knowledge to both sound and light waves. This is the fourth in a series of nine lessons.
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Waves and Currents
Waves, currents, crests, and troughs. Using information provided in an article about waves and currents, readers define terms used to describe how energy travels.
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Sound Vocabulary
Enhance your unit on sound waves with this word scramble. Fifteen terms are available for physics learners to unscramble. Have them write the definition for each as homework.
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Physics in Concert
What do physicists and musicians have in common? A lot more than you might think. After first viewing a slide show presentation and completing a series of skills practice worksheets on the physics of light, sound, and electricity, young...
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The Science of Sound
For this explanation of sound worksheet, students discover what sound is, how different sounds are made, frequency, how sound travels, how we hear, and a summarization. In this physical science worksheet, students answer ten...
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Chandra Spies the Longest Sound Wave in the Universe!
In this black hole instructional activity, students use an x-ray image and a sound waves image to determine the size and the wavelength of the sound wave. This instructional activity has 3 problems to solve.
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How the Ear Receives Sound
In this biology activity, learners identify how the ear receives sound by using the information given to cut and paste each section to complete a flow chart that illustrates this. They lightly color each section of the flow chart to...
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Sounds from Vibrating Air
Take note, or notes, as the case may be. A scientific music lesson is the third in a set of eight covering waves and instruments. Scholars use straws, test tubes, and water to create various wind instruments. Then, they read and answer...
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The Pitch and Volume of Sound
Primary graders are introduced to the concepts of pitch and volume with a reading comprehension learning exercise that focuses on the physics of sound.
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Take-Home Midterm Exam #3
The University of Hawaii has published a vast collection of midterm and final exams for their Physics 152 course. This particular exam offers a variety of assessment methods, and covers the topic of electromagnetic radiation....
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Sound
In this physics worksheet, students use the clues given on the bottom of the sheet to complete the crossword puzzle on sound. There are 18 clues to solve in the puzzle.
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Physics 210: 24
In this physics 210 activity, students answer the question of the predicted modes of oscillations heard based on the information provided in the word problems. Students apply their understanding of sound waves to answer the questions given.
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Sound Waves; vocabulary review
In this science activity, students locate 28 words in a word search. The focus of the word search is vocabulary connected to the study of sound waves.
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Explorit's Physics Quiz (Level 1)
In this online interactive physics quiz instructional activity, students respond to 5 questions. Students may check their answers for accuracy.
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Physics 210 - Frequency
In this frequency worksheet, students use the speed of sound to determine the frequency in which sounds are heard in 5 different word problems.
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How The Ear Receives Sound
In this how the ear receives sound instructional activity, students examine and follow a flow chart to view the process of how sound travels within the human ear. Students place the flow chart in chronological order.
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Design Project: Signal Generator
In this physics worksheet, students design and build a signal generator. They write a lab report and answer 4 short answer questions about their design.
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Design Project: Audio Media-based Signal Generator
In this physics worksheet, students are given a schematic diagram to construct an amplifier circuit. They complete 4 short answer questions about the circuit they made.
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Phase-locked Loops
In this physics instructional activity, students examine how phase-locked loop circuits works and answer 8 short answer questions about it. They explain how FM radio communication works.