• Catch up
• Discussion of Indivdiual Investigations

September 9

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September 13

• 4.1 Oscillations
• Simple Harmonic Motion
• SHM at the Exploratorium
• pHET:The Pendulum Lab
• Notes

September 15

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September 17

• 4.2 Travelling Waves
• Everyone Loves a Slinky
• Waves in a Slinky
• Waves
• Transverse & Longitudinal Waves
• Transverse & Longitudinal Waves
• PhET: Wave-on-a-string
• Refelction of Waves at a Boundary
• Notes

• IA meetings and research

September 21

• 4.3 Wave Characteristics
• Ripple Tank
• Ripple Tank Applet (needs Java)
• PhET: Waves Intro
• Superposition of Waves
• Rogue Waves
• Malus' Law
• Notes

September 23

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September 28

• 4.4 Wave Behaviour
• Refraction & Snell's Law
• Critical Thinking Exercises
• PhET: Bending Light
• Diffraction
• The Brightest Part of a Shadow is in the Middle
• Mathematics of Two-Point Source Interference (all sections)
• pHET: Wave Interference
• Interference of Water Waves
• Interference Model: Ripple Tank
• Optics Interference: Ripple Tank Program
• Light Interference
• The Original Double Slit Experiment
• Perimeter Institute Double-Slit Simulations
• Wave Refraction Sheet
• Diffraction Sheet
• Superposition of Waves Sheet (example)
• Waves at a Boundary Sheet
• Notes