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Online Course
Yale University

Open Yale Courses: Fundamentals of Physics

For Students 9th - 10th
Intended for students with a strong math and science background, a course introducing physics concepts of Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, gravitation, thermodynamics, and waves. Twenty-four class sessions in video format are...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Electromagnetic Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text, interactive activities, practice problems, and virtual simulations, students explore the properties of electromagnetic waves.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Longitudinal Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students can use this module to find out what a longitudinal wave is and how it differs from a transverse wave.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text, interactive activities, and practice problems, students learn about the properties of waves, and how they transfer energy.
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PBS

Pbs: Physics Girl

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the physical world with this series that uses everyday experiments to demonstrate scientific ideas on this site.
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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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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Wavelike Behaviors of Light

For Students 9th - 10th
How light waves demonstrate their wave nature by reflection, refraction, and diffraction.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Light Waves and Color

For Students 9th - 10th
The behavior of light waves is introduced and discussed. Also, polarization, color, diffraction, and interference are introduced and discussed thoroughly as supporting evidence of the wave nature of light.
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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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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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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Oscillatory Motion and Waves: Problems and Exercises

For Students 11th - 12th
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.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Oscillatory Motion and Waves: Conceptual Questions

For Students 11th - 12th
This is a list of 18 questions covering the major concepts in Chapter 16: Oscillatory Motion and Waves from the AP Physics online text.
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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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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Physics/light

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a large collection of simple science class activities for understanding the physics of light.
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Activity
American Association of Physics Teachers

Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Harmonics and Fourier Series

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The downloadable interactive java simulation displays the sum of harmonics through a Fourier series to yield a new wave.
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Activity
Curated OER

Education in Physics and Mathematics: Wave Parts

For Students 9th - 10th
A physics site, it describes aspects of waves, like the sine wave The explaination is good and it illustrates the connection between mathematics and physics.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Wave Amplitude

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What wave amplitude is and how to measure it, and what determines the amplitude of a wave.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Wave Particle Theory

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The wave-particle theory and what a photon is, and evidence that electromagnetic radiation is both a particle and a wave.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Wave Speed

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

Ck 12: Physical Science: Wave Interference

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What wave interference is, constructive and destructive interference and how standing waves occur.
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University of New South Wales (Australia)

University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physclips: Standing Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand how standing waves occur in this learning module that includes animations and videos.
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Physics: Light I: Particle or Wave

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructional module focusing on light. Discussion includes historical development of particle versus wave theories and the scientific studies leading to the understanding of light waves today. Site also includes an interactive practice...
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Website
University of Washington

University of Washington: Physics of Tsunamis

For Students 9th - 10th
The civil engineering department presents the physics of a tsunami. The topics addressed: what does "tsunami" mean; how do tsunamis differ from other water waves; how do earthquakes generate tsunamis; how do landslides, volcanic...

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