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The Physics Classroom: Thermal Physics: Calorimeters and Calorimetry
Students learn about calorimeters and calorimetry in this illustrated, interactive physics tutorial.
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The Physics Classroom: Electric Field Lines
In this interactive students will explore the strength of an electric field in the space surrounding a source charge. It is related directly to the quantity of charge on the source charge and inversely to the distance from the source...
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The Physics Classroom: Waves: Waves and Wavelike Motion
Here is an introduction to the concept of waves and wavelike motion people experience anywhere and everywhere.
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The Physics Classroom: Waves: What Is a Wave?
Students examine how waves are described in a manner that allows us to understand their basic nature and qualities.
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The Physics Classroom: Waves: Categories of Waves
This physics tutorial helps students categorize waves based on distinguishing, observable characteristics.
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The Physics Classroom: Waves: The Anatomy of a Wave
Students explore the characteristics of both transverse and longitudinal waves.
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The Physics Classroom: Waves: Energy Transport and the Amplitude of a Wave
Students explore the energy transport phenomenon that transports energy along a medium without transporting matter.
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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.
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The Physics Classroom: Waves: Behavior of Waves: Interference of Waves
Students discover wave interference, the phenomenon that occurs when two waves meet while traveling along the same medium.
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The Physics Classroom: Waves: The Doppler Effect
This explanation of the Doppler effect allows students to visualize how this physics phenomenon happens.
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The Physics Classroom: Waves: Traveling Waves vs. Standing Waves
Students discover the difference between traveling and standing waves in this physics tutorial.
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The Physics Classroom: Waves: Formation of Standing Waves
Through illustrated examples and animations, students investigate the formation of standing waves.
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The Physics Classroom: Waves: Nodes and Anti Nodes
Through interactive practice problems and illustrations, students explore nodes and antinodes in standing waves.
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The Physics Classroom: Waves: Harmonics and Patterns
This illustrated physics tutorial helps students understand harmonics and wave patterns.
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The Physics Classroom: Wave: Mathematics of Standing Waves
Students analyze harmonic patterns through several example problems and interactive practice examples.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Sound Is a Mechanical Wave
This interactive physics tutorial allows students to investigate the nature, properties and behaviors of sound waves and apply basic wave principles towards an understanding of music.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Sound as a Longitudinal Wave
Students explore and discover how sound is created through longitudinal waves.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Pitch and Frequency
Use this interactive physics tutorial to introduce students to the concepts of pitch and frequency in sound waves.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Intensity and the Decibel Scale
Students explore intensity of sound waves and the decibel scale in this interactive physics tutorial.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: The Human Ear
Using diagrams and animations, students discover how the anatomy of the ear and the physics of sound waves work together to allow us to hear.
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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.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: The Doppler Effect and Shock Waves
This physics tutorial focuses on the application of the Doppler effect to sound.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Boundary Behavior
Students study animations and diagrams to learn about the reflection behavior of sound waves.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves & Music: Reflection, Refraction, Diffraction
In this illustrated physics tutorial, students learn about sound wave behaviors and apply them to the reflection, diffraction, and refraction of sound waves.