Portfolio Lists, Homework
Unit 1 : Introduction
Unit 2: Waves, Vocabulary List
Unit 3: Sound
Unit 4: Light
Useful Links
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Unit 1: Introduction
Hand Shadow show by Raymond Crowe: Amazing what a pair of hands and a light source can do!
Shadow Dancing by Pilobolus: A small sample of this dance troupe's excursion into the art of shadow.
Unit 2: Waves
Sine Waves and Simple Harmonic Motion
Acoustic and Vibration Animations:Dan Russel (Kettering U) has created some excellent animations of wave phenomena.
Wave on a String: Play with String. From U. of Colorado PhET collection.
Standing Wave on a String: See how a standing wave develops in real time.
Interference of Water Waves: From C.K. Ng's collection.
Ripple Tank Simulation: Paul Falstad's Java simulation.
Tsunami Explained: Nice animation from the BBC.
Tsunami: NOVA Website
Tsunami NOAA Site: click on "Tsunami in the sidebar, then on "Tsunami Science"
Tsunami Physics: U. of Washington general information: Click on "More on Tsunamis.
Unit 3: Sound
The Physics of Music and Musical Instruments: A downloadable PDF of this text.
Sound Simulations: Select "Sound and Waves." Then click on "Sound" to see a visualization of soundwaves. Click on "Fourier: Making Waves" to try your hand at matching complex wave patterns to their component frequencies.
Speed of Sound Calculator: Click on "Sound and Hearing" and then "Speed of Sound" at the bottom.
Standing Longitudinal Waves: Standing Waves in a Pipe
Air Columns in Musical Instruments: Check out open and closed pipes.
Beats: visualize the production of beats
Breaking the Sound Barrier: PBS show on the first plane to travel faster than the speed of sound.
Resonata: One of the many places where art and resonance merge.
The Human Ear: One of many sites that explains how we hear through our ears.
Test Your Hearing Frequency Response...
Try the Wave Game: Messing with Fourier Transforms
More about Musical Instruments, Reverberation etc.
Unit 4: Light and Color
Radio Wave Simulation: See how vibrating electric charge causes electromagnetic disturbances -- waves.
Causes of Color: Gorgeous Museum Web Exhibit
Color Mixing: Additive and subtractive color mixing (lights and pigments) try it yourself!
Laptop Screens: Did you know that laptop screens (and cell phone screens...) make use of polarized light, color mixing, and a whole lot more?
Unit 5: Optics
Lens Simulator: Real and Virtual Images from the PhET collection.
Another Lens Simulator: Try the tutorial, or just mess around.
Ray Tracing for Spherical Mirrors
Atmospheric Optics: There's a whole lot more than just rainbows!
Diffraction, Interference and Quantum Physics
Lasers: A good explanations of how they work, starting simple. Some very good animations.
