Sound Waves

Welcome, this is a learning resource for AS and A Level wave and sound physics. This site uses high speed video and animations to help explain waves and acoustics.

• Introduction to waves, transverse waves
  • Longitudinal waves
  • The decibel
  • Noise pollution & hearing loss
• Oscillation and simple harmonic motion
  • Inertia, sine waves, damping
  • Free & Forced Oscillations and Resonance
  • More on damping
• Reflection of waves
• Superposition of waves
  • Interference from two point sources
  • Noise cancellation
  • Beats
  • Superposition test
• Diffraction
  • Diffraction effects
  • Diffraction through slits, Young’s double slit experiment
  • Diffraction grating
• Wave propagation
• Waves on a string, standing waves