It sounds louder because vibrations travel through the metal and string more easily than through air.

At home 11-14 14-16

Music Festival is one day off-timetable activity in which students develop skills in enterprise and learn how physics applies...

Enrichment Activity 14-16

An activity to encourage more students, particularly girls, to consider careers related to physics. Students work in teams...

Enrichment Activity 11-14 14-16

In this demonstration students see how a longitudinal wave can generate a sine-shaped curve. You can use it to introduce sound...

Practical Activity 14-16

A selection of question sets and worksheets to use with your students to support and develop their understanding of light...

Remote teaching support 11-14 14-16 16-19

A selection of home experiments that are suitable to use with your students remotely to support and develop their...

Remote teaching support 11-14 14-16 16-19

A selection of home experiments and online simulations that are suitable to use with your students aged 14-16 (KS3) whilst...

Remote teaching support 14-16

Students download an oscilloscope app onto their phones to investigate the pitch and loudness of sounds.

Practical Activity 11-14 14-16

In addition to the radio waves produced by human beings’ transmitters, low frequency radio waves from a number of natural...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

During the early days of radio technology, in 1903, Frederick Collins published a paper in which he set out to determine the...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

In 1958, the United States Government declared a 180 km by 190 km area as the National Radio Quiet Zone.

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

During the Second World War, radio operators reported being able to perceive microwaves as auditory stimuli.

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16