MS - ZIS Middle School Library Resources: Waves

• Properties of light
• Color, light and wavelength
• Types of light bulbs
• Lasers
• Fiber optics

From The Boys' Latin School of Maryland

• Refraction and Snell's Law
• Refraction and the ray model of light

• Why do scientists think that light and sound are waves?
• Resonance

• The role of light to sight
• The anatomy of a lens

• Categories of Waves

  The Physics Classroom
• Sound: An Interactive eBook

  Great overview. 2018 Kyle Forinash and Wolfgang Christian
• Transverse and Longitudinal Waves

  Hyperphysics

* How Sound Waves Work

• Light Waves and Color

  The Physics Classroom
• Sound Waves and Music

  The Physics Classroom

  What Are Microwaves?

  Livescience

• Superposition of Waves

  U of Salford, Manchester. Simple explanations and videos
• Wave Interactions

  cK-12
• Wave Interference Simulations: Water, Sound, Light

  OpenStax CNX

   

  Wave Interference

   

  Standing Waves

• Electromagnetic Radiation

  Chemistry LibreTexts
• The Electromagnetic Spectrum

  BBC Bitesize Science
• The Electromagnetic Spectrum Video Series & Companion Book

  NASA

  more...
• Light: Electromagnetic Waves, the Electromagnetic Spectrum and Photons

  Khan Academy
• What Is Electromagnetic Radiation?

  LiveScience

• Doppler Effect

  Physics Classroom
• Doppler Effect

  Hyperphysics
• Explainer: The Doppler Effect

  The Conversation
• Waves, Motion and Frequency: the Doppler Efffect

  Einstein Online

• Sound Experiments

  Hunkin's Experiments
• PBS Design Squad

  Sound & music activities & videos.
• How to Make a Matchbox Microphone

  Video tutorial.
• Craft Stick Harmonica
• Remaster the Golden Record

  Teens & Adults.
• Sound program from STEM in Libraries

  How does sound travel? Watch noise move salt, make your own harmonica, and more.

• Soundwaves overview
• Measuring Sound
• Decibels
• Doppler Shift
• Frequency and pitch