Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Wave Properties From Graph 1
Determine the wavelength and amplitude of a wave based on the vertical position vs. horizontal position graph.
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Physics: Light I: Particle or Wave
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...
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Sound Wave Problem
Determine the speed of a sound wave through an alien atmosphere. You must also find the frequency of the wave source and the wavelength of the wave.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Wave Properties From Graph 3
Determine the speed of a wave based on reading the vertical position vs. time graph simultaneously with the vertical position vs. horizontal position graph.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Wave Equation
This program asks students to determine the variables in a wave equation. Students must determine wavelength, frequency, and amplitude.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Waves: Nodes and Anti Nodes
Through interactive practice problems and illustrations, students explore nodes and antinodes in standing waves.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Waves: Boundary Behavior
Through illustrated examples, video clips, and practice problems, students explore what happens to waves at the boundary of different mediums.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Sound Intensity Problem
In this problem you must determine the intensity of a sound wave when it reaches a given location away from its source.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Read the Oscilloscope Challenge
Practice reading an oscilloscope. Students must achieve a score or 10 or more. At the end students should be able to get frequency, period, voltage and peak to peak voltage.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Analyzing the Interference of Sound Waves and Beats
A site for students to practice viewing two sound waves interference and analyze the patterns formed.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Physics (Combined Science)
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,...
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Diffraction
This physics department site provides links about the diffraction of light. Each page includes thorough explanations and meaningful graphics. Some pages include interactive problem-solving practice sections.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Physics Tutorial: Waves: The Speed of a Wave
With sample data, equations, and practice problems, students explore the concept of wave speed.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Wave Properties From Graph 2
Determine the period, frequency and amplitude of the wave that produced the position vs. time graph shown below.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Wave: Mathematics of Standing Waves
Students analyze harmonic patterns through several example problems and interactive practice examples.
Learn AP Physics
Learn Ap Physics: Physics B: Waves
A site dedicated to help students prepare for the AP Physics B test. This specific site reviews waves including traveling waves, standing waves, resonance, speed of electromagnetic waves, Doppler shift, Doppler effect, interference,...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Open End Air Columns
Through illustrated diagrams and interactive practice examples, students explore the physics of sound in open-end air column musical instruments.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Closed End Air Columns
Through illustrated diagrams and interactive practice examples, students explore the physics of sound in closed-end air column musical instruments.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Speed of Sound
Physics tutorial on measuring the speed of sound in dry air. An interactive form allows the student to practice solving problems involving the temperature dependence of the speed of sound.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: The Speed of Sound
Students discover factors that affect the speed of sound waves through a medium with illustrated examples and interactive practice problems.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Light Waves/color: Electromagnetic and Visible Spectra
This illustrated physics tutorial explains the electromagnetic and visible spectra of light using illustrated examples and interactive practice problems.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Doppler Effect
This hypertext physics course page illustrates and explains the Doppler effect. Users perform practice calculations for frequency shifts using the Doppler equation.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Interference and Beats
Illustrated diagrams and interactive practice problems show constructive and destructive interference occurring at sound beats.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Light Waves and Color: Polarization
Through illustrated practice problems and video clips, students learn about polarization of light.