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Year 10 Physics Preparation

Waves

General	Tsunamis	Earthquakes
	Microwaves	Ultrasound

Online Database

Encyclopaedia Britannica is a very useful resource for this subject. You don’t require a password if accessed at school. Use the search terms : “microwaves”, “ultrasonics”, “electromagnetic waves” longitudinal waves and seismic waves

General web sites on waves

GCSE Physics. Waves

http://www.gcse.com/waves.htm

The Physics Classroom : the nature of waves

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/waves/U10L1a.html

Waves. Wikipedia
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Waves

Wave. Physics
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0006049.html

The Physics Department: Waves

http://id.mind.net/~zona/mstm/physics/waves/waves.html

Waves (Hard)

http://physics.nad.ru/Physics/English/waves.htm

Wave

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_theory

Tsunamis

The physics of tsunamis
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/physics/physics.html

Physics of tsunamis
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/physics.htm

Tsunamis Physics

http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/sci/osap/projects/tsunami/tsunamiphysics_e.htm

Scientific Explanation : Wave Physics

http://individual.utoronto.ca/fkrauss/tsunami/properties.html

The Physics of Tsunamis includes animated diagrams
http://www.physics.ubc.ca/~outreach/phys420/p420_05/anthony/The%20Physics%20of%20Tsunamis.htm

Tsunamis and Earthquakes

What physics is interesting?. Scroll down to the 3^rd paragraph Tsunamis.

http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-58/iss-6/p10.html

Earthquakes

Seismic Waves

http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/seismic-waves.html

Concise summary of seismic waves

http://jclahr.com/science/psn/chapman/seismic_waves.html

What are Seismic Waves
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/UPSeis/waves.html

Waves. Earthquakes
http://gcsephysics.com/pwav52.htm

Electric Wave Defraction

http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~complex/research/earthquakes/diffraction/diffraction.htm

Microwaves

Electromagnetic waves
http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/emwaves.htm

Microwave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwaves

Microwaves
http://www.gcse.com/waves/microwave.htm

Electromagnetic Waves

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/waves_particles/index.html

Electromagnetic spectrum

http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/ems/waves3.html

Electromagnetic waves
http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/emwaves.htm

Waves as electromagnetic waves. Scroll down to see an animation of a microwave
http://www.stkate.edu/physics/phys112/curric/microwav.html

Microwaves and microwave ovens
http://resources.emb.gov.hk/physics/articleIE/microwaveoven/microwave_e.htm

How a microwaves oven works?
http://van.physics.uiuc.edu/qa/listing.php?id=820

Electromagnetic waves. (Academic)

http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/PY106/EMWaves.html

Ultrasound

Ultrasound

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/physics/waves/soundultrasoundandseismicwavesrev4.shtml

Basic principles of ultrasound. Hit the enter key. This site has a good diagram of the waves of ultrasound and a glossary of terms.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=ultrasound.htm&url=http://www.echo-web.com/secure/echo-202-free/echo202.htm

Ultrasound – the information here is concerned with ultrasound within medicine but it does give a good description of how ultrasounds work.

http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=genus&bhcp=1

Ultrasound how does it work? Refer also to link to “Extra Material”
http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspDetail&ResourceID=52

How ultrasound works

http://health.howstuffworks.com/ultrasound.htm/printable

Ultrasound Physics
http://www.physics247.com/physics-tutorial/ultrasound-physics.shtml

The applications of ultrasound. Physics in daily life.

http://www.hk-phy.org/articles/ultrasound/ultrasound_e.html

The use of ultrasound in medicine (academic)

http://academia.hixie.ch/bath/ultrasound/home.html

Physics of ultrasound
http://www.rapm.ca/US%20guided%20block%20-%20Physics%20of%20Ultrasound.htm

The Nature of Sound
http://hypertextbook.com/physics/waves/sound