Light Sound and Waves

Kitset of the main ideas in the topic Radiations and Radiating

Teaching Guidance for 14-16 Supporting Physics Teaching

Radiations and Radiating kitset
Light Sound and Waves Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Light, Sound and Waves

Pupils generally do not intuitively recognise white light is a mixture of colours of light.

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RESEARCH REVIEW Light, Sound and Waves

Some younger students may consider light as only a property of large conspicuous luminous objects.

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RESEARCH REVIEW Light, Sound and Waves

Some students struggle to draw ray diagrams showing refraction when the boundary is depicted as vertical if they have been introduced to the concept with horizontal boundaries.

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