Sound Wave
Light Sound and Waves

Kitset of the main ideas in the topic Sound

Teaching Guidance for 11-14 IOP TAP

Sound kitset
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Sound Wave
Light, Sound and Waves Supporting Physics Teaching

A noisy alarm clock

Children think about the path which the vibrations must follow from source to detector in order for this sound to be heard. To...

Classroom Activity 5-11

Sound Wave
Light, Sound and Waves Supporting Physics Teaching

Showing sounds on an oscilloscope

It's great fun to connect a microphone to an oscilloscope and to use the scope to monitor different sounds. Can you sing a...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

Sound Wave
Light, Sound and Waves

Bottle Orchestra

The easier it is for the glass to vibrate when you tap it, the higher the frequency. So the bottle with less water in will...

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Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Light, Sound and Waves

Most pupils struggle to represent sound accurately

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RESEARCH REVIEW Light, Sound and Waves

Many students, even some that understand that sound is the result of vibrations, struggle to explain the effect of covering an object which is making sound

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RESEARCH REVIEW Light, Sound and Waves

A few students may not think of sound as traveling at all

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