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Title Wave Representations (Inquiry Based)
Description The students will use the simulation to learn the goals through an inquiry approach.Learning Goals:Students will be able to think about waves as a function of time, space or space-time and explain why waves might be represented in these different ways.
Subject Physics
Level High School, Undergrad - Intro
Type Lab
Duration 60 minutes
Answers Included No
Language English
Keywords Sound, Waves, functions, math, phet activity, sine
Simulation(s) Fourier: Making Waves

Author(s) Trish Loeblein
Contact Email patricia.loeblein@colorado.edu
School / Organization PhET CU Boulder
Date submitted 8/11/05
Date updated 7/7/13
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