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The EjsS Wave Illustration Package contains JavaScript adaptations of Physlet Illustrations from Physlet Physics Chapter 17. Students need to interact with the Physlet, but the…
  
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This AAPT Lesson Plan for Grades 6-9 explores pitch, frequency, amplitude, and resonance phenomena through hands-on activities. It blends digital modeling of wave phenomena with…
  
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This five-day lesson module for high school physics uses modeling and hands-on investigation to explore how digital signals are created from analog information. Students will use art…
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This simulation illustrates the addition of two waves, either transverse and/or longitudinal. The user can interactively change a wide range of parameters of the interfering waves:…
  
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The Physlet Physics Section 3: Waves, provides a technology-enhanced introduction to topics in introductory mechanics on oscillations and waves. Interactive javascript simulations…
  
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The Web Optics Project provides an extensive set of 3D simulations of optics experiments. A wide range of systems can be modeled, including interference and diffraction, lenses,…
  
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This site has links to a series of applets relating to physics. The subjects include topics in mechanics, oscillations and waves, electrodynamics, optics, thermodynamics, relativity,…
  
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This page provides the resources that professor Harold T. Stokes from Brigham Young University has developed to support his courses. These include Flash simulations, Java applets,…
  
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In this applet a pendulum is in a vertical position when put in a stopped car. When the car is accelerated, it will swing with a new equilibrium position. The user can change the…
  
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This applet demonstrates fourier synthesis. The user can left click and drag the circles to change the magnitude of each Fourier function. Then, they can right click the mouse button…
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