Work on wedensday

Dear students

I am on a course in Combined Science at another school today, so I'm not here to teach you.

The lesson for today can instead be found here, on this website

The goal for today is to be able to explain the following:

1 Describe what is meant by wave motion as illustrated by vibration in ropes and springs and by experiments using water waves.

2 Distinguish between transverse and longitudinal waves and give suitable examples.

3 State the meaning of and use the terms speed, frequency, wavelength and amplitude.

 4 Recall and use the equation v = f X λ

 5 Identify how a wave can be reflected off a plane barrier and can change direction as its speed changes.

The ressources for this task can be found here:

Transversal and longiturnal waves

Features of transversal waves

Features of  longiturnal waves

Reflection of waves

The wave equation

You can also read all this in the book on page :
200 to 207


Do exercise :

14.1 and 14.2