Demonstration: waste pipe is used to illustrate interference of sound waves coming from a single source by two different paths...

Practical Activity 14-16

A widespread activity is to make a rough measurement of the speed of sound by timing the gap between making a sound and...

Classroom Activity 5-11 11-14

Clap your hands not too far from a big wall and you can hear both the original clap and, shortly afterwards, its echo. What is...

Physics Narrative 5-11 11-14

Sound can travel through any medium, so long as there are sufficient particles in each cubic metre to allow the to and fro...

Physics Narrative 5-11 11-14

Pupils need to differentiate between the speed of sound in air and the speed of light in air.

Teaching Guidance 5-11 11-14

When we teach about sound, light and other radiations in school, it is well worth remembering that these are familiar things...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Based on everyday reasoning many students believe that sounds travel more slowly in solids than in gases.

Teaching Guidance 14-16

This episode considers how these three quantities are linked by the wave equation v = f × λ , measuring f using an...

Lesson 16-19

You probably have a story like this one: It's a Saturday afternoon and Anita, a keen football fan, is revising for her exams...

Teaching Guidance 11-14

Suggestions for activities to aid the teaching of 'hearing things' based on the Physics Narrative and the Teaching Guidance.

Classroom Activity 5-11

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 videos to use with your KS3 students (ages 11-14) to support and develop their understanding of Light, Sound...

Remote teaching support 11-14