Waves

Sunflower Learning

About this app

Waves gives you virtual ripple tank and light box experiments together with animations and diagrams to help explain what's going on. You’ll use it to cover:
• How ripple tanks and light boxes enable us to see wave phenomena in different ways
• Frequency, wavelength and speed of waves.
• How we represent light in ray diagrams
• Reflection off straight and curved surfaces
• Refraction through prisms and lenses
• How lenses work
• How fibre optics work
• Diffraction
• Interference patterns

What's new

Very first release