Transverse Progressive Wave

Class experiment: Students, working in pairs, observe and try to explain what happens to wave pulses on a long narrow spring...

Practical Activity 14-16

Demonstration: Lines of dynamics trolleys connected by springs make good models for both longitudinal and transverse waves...

Practical Activity 14-16

Demonstration: Use this experiment when introducing transverse and longitudinal waves. Later it might also be used when...

Practical Activity 14-16

Class practical: Introduce the concept of a transverse wave by drawing attention to a wave pulse as a displacement at right...

Practical Activity 14-16

Demonstration: Another way of demonstrating the transverse motion of particles in a water wave.

Practical Activity 14-16

Class practical: Introduce transverse and longitudinal waves with a kinaesthetic experience. This can help students to...

Practical Activity 14-16

Diagnostic questions relating to sound and light waves.

Diagnostic Questions 14-16

This episode introduces the idea that vibrations can give rise to disturbances travelling outwards, i.e. to progressive waves...

Lesson 16-19

Students often confuse displacement/distance graphs (from which wavelength can be deduced) with displacement/time graphs (e.g...

Lesson 16-19

In this activity students explore how the thickness of tracing paper changes the amount of light that is transmitted.

Practical Activity 11-14