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- Subject: Physics
- AS: AS90520
- Level: 3
- Credits: 4
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Physics 3.3 Demonstrate understanding of wave systems
Sites for revision
Java Applets on Physics
A website that provides interactive java applets on physics topics. The oscillations and waves plus light sections are the most relevant for this standard. Suitable for NCEA.
http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph11e/index.html
HyperPhysics
This website has information about many topics in physics, chemistry, geophysics, and biology. You can select the subject area to find a topic or select from an index. Suitable for NCEA levels 2 and 3.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
Light and Colour
A website that describes with interactive tutorials the complex phenomenon that is classically explained with a simple model based on waves and particles. The topics includes sources of visible light (electromagnetic radiation), the theory behind light being made up of waves or particles, speed of light, reflection, refraction, diffraction and interference of light, and basic properties of mirrors, prisms, and lasers. Suitable for NCEA.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/lightandcolor/index.html
PhET Simulations
The University of Colorado at Boulder’s website has some useful simulations for waves and sound. Suitable for levels 2 and 3.
http://phet.colorado.edu/new/simulations/index.php?cat=Sound_and_Waves
