Table of Contents
Oscillations & Waves Activities
Anharmonic Oscillations
Forced Oscillations
Standing and Traveling Waves
Dispersion Relations
Reflection & Transmission
Energy in a Wave
Plane Waves
Fourier Analysis
Quantum: Particle in a Box
Oscillations & Waves Activities
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Anharmonic Oscillations
Forced Oscillations
Standing and Traveling Waves
Using Initial Conditions to Specify Analytic Wave Solutions
(Small Group Activity)
Dispersion Relations
Dispersion Relation for Waves on a String
(Interactive Demo)
Reflection & Transmission
Wave Propagation in a Coaxial Cable
(Laboratory Activity)
Energy in a Wave
Energy Density of Waves on a String
(Small Group Activity)
Plane Waves
Fourier Analysis
Guessing the Fourier Expansion of a Function
Quantum: Particle in a Box