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Episode 310: Wave Graphs
In this learning episode, from the Institute of Physics, students interpret graphs of waves to understand concepts such as wavelength, frequency and phase.
The activities in this episode include:
• plotting displacement and drawing longitudinal waves
• considering phase
• understanding compression and rarefaction
• looking at displacement-time graphs
• understanding phase and phase difference
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