Internet Resources for Vibrations and Waves

1. Oscillations and Vibrations
   • Waves and Oscillations from the Department of Mathmetatics - University of Glascow.
   • Waves and Vibrations an on-line Physics Textbook.
   • Damped Harmonic Oscillator Applet from fun @learning.physics
   • Oscillations of bridges from the Brantacam home page.
   • Nacoma Narrows Bridge Failure from the Unversity of Bristol Applied Engineering Mathematics Department.
   • Lissajous figures from B. Surendranath Reddy's General Physics Java Applets.
   • Interactive Lissajous figures from the Famous Curves Applet Index from the Mathematics Department at St. Andrews of of Scotland.
2. General Properties of Waves
   • Acoustics and Vibration Animations by Dr. Dan Russell of Kettering University in Flint, Michigan.
   • Various interactive wave demonstrations from Zona Land.
   • Waves From the online Physics Tutorial at Colegio Franklin D. Roosevelt in Lima, Peru. A ThinkQuest site.
   • Polarization Presents polarization with respect to the optical properties of crystals. Links to virtual experiments in Polarization.
   • Single slit diffraction A java applet showing single slit diffraction. From Mississippi State University
   • Vibration and Waves A unit on vibration and waves from PhoolProof Physics. PhoolProof Physics was created by an international team of three high school students: Erin Daida, Jessica Chapman, and Sabin Popa, as a ThinkQuest project .
3. Standing Waves
   • A description of a standing waves experiment for a constant frequency sourceFrom Mark Henderson of the Mississippi School for Science and Math
   • Strings, Standing Waves and HarmonicsFrom the University of New South Wales.
   • An animation showing the formation of a standing wave from two traveling waves From the Everyday Physics (Physics 106) course at the University of Michigan
   • A Java applet showing the formation of longitudinal standing waves From the home page of Walter Fendt
   • Physics in Action Java Animations from the home page of Xing Min (Sherman) Wang.
4. Sound
   • The Physics of Sound from ThinkQuest.
   • Sound Waves from the Phyiscs Education Laboratory at Virginia Tech.
   • An applet showing the Doppler Effect from Walter Feng of Augsburg University in Germany.
   • Doppler shift for a moving point source.