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Physics Teaching Technology Resource: Learning Cycles on Harmonic Motion and Waves 
  
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This learning cycle features nine videotaped experiments, organized sequentially for introducing fundamentals of harmonic motion and waves. Each video includes learning goal, prior…
http://islephysics.net/pt3/cycleindex.php?topicid=6
TryEngineering: Play Games 
  
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This is a collection of 25+ online games designed to let students think like an engineer and make decisions that apply an understanding of concepts in physics and engineering. Games…
https://tryengineering.org/students/games/
CIESE Real Time Data Projects: Tsunami Surge 
  
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This internet-based project for Grades 6-12 taps into real-time data as the framework for a student investigation of tsunami phenomena. First, students look at historical information…
http://www.ciese.org/curriculum/tsunami/
PhET Teacher Activities: Properties of a Wave 
  
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This simulation-based activity for middle school was developed to help students build a foundation to understand basic wave properties. It was created by a middle school teacher to…
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/contributions/view/3447
PBS Learning Media: Virtual Pendulum 
  
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This animated Shockwave activity explores pendulum motion by displaying the patterns traced by the tip of an ideal pendulum. Swing it back and forth from different heights and change…
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https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/phy03.sci.phys.mfw.zpendulumin...
Wave Machine Model  [ Computer Program ]
  
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This model simulates the wave generating machine created by John Shive at Bell Laboratories and made famous by the Similarities in Wave Behavior film. The machine consists of…
https://www.compadre.org/precollege/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10481&DocI...
The Animated Chalkboard 2006: Motion 1  [ Computer Program ]
  
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This zip file download contains a package of 22 Windows-based physics animations on velocity, acceleration, friction, momentum, rotational frames, and more. It was created as an…
https://www.compadre.org/precollege/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10633&DocI...
Physics Classroom: Sound is a Mechanical Wave 
  
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This interactive tutorial describes the nature of sound as a mechanical wave -- a wave that requires a medium to transport energy from one location to another. It is the first of…
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Physics Classroom: Sound as a Longitudinal Wave 
  
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This interactive tutorial discusses sound waves as longitudinal, in which the disturbance moves in the same direction as the propagation of the wave. Longitudinal waves are…
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Physics Classroom: Sound is a Pressure Wave 
  
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This interactive resource is the third of a 3-part tutorial on the nature of sound waves, developed for introductory physics courses. Words, images and animation are combined to…
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