Part 2: Exploring Waves

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Related Units
Acoustics: The Science of Sound (Physics)

Activity 2A: Where Does Sound Go?

Slide Presentation: Where Does Sound Go?

Use this slide presentation to show students different ways to draw sound waves on Handout 6: Where Does Sound Go? (Coming Soon)

Activity 2B: The Speed of Sound

Slide Presentation: How Sound Travels Through Different Media

This slide presentation discusses sound traveling through liquids and solids. (Coming Soon)

Activity 2C: Making Waves

Animations of Superposition and Standing Waves

Use one or more of these animations to show how superposition of reflected waves can produce standing waves.

www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/stwaverefl.htm

http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=Wave_on_a_String

http://paws.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos/superposition/superposition.html

http://zonalandeducation.com/mstm/physics/waves/standingWaves/standingWaveDiagrams1/StandingWaveDiagrams1.html