CONCEPT ANALYSIS

Vibration and Wave

Submitted as one assignment of School Science 2
Lecturer:
Ikmanda Nugraha, S.Pd., M.Pd.
Rika Rafikah, S.Pd., M.Pd.

Arranged by:
Putra Habib Dhitareka (1304681)

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM ON SCIENCE EDUCATION

FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION
UNIVERSITAS PENDIDIKAN INDONESIA
BANDUNG

CONCEPT ANALYSIS
IDEA 1
VIBRATION IS A PERIODIC
NO ASPECT/
BACK AND FORTH MOTION OF
. IDEA
THINGS THROUGH THE POINT
OF EQUILIBRIUM.
1 What you intend  Any things can vibrate, whether the
the students to things or the particles.
learn about this  When we play on a cradle, we first
idea moves to the back then we swing
to the front and forth, this is an
example how vibration happen.
 When we stay still on the cradle,
creating a straight line
perpendicular to the ground, we
can assume that it was the
equilibrium point.
 One vibration is happen when we
swing from our initial point when
we moves back then moves
through equilibrium to our farthest
front point, then moves back to our
initial position though our
equilibrium point.
 So it can be said that one vibration
is happen when we wiggle from
our initial position back to its
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IDEA 2
WAVE IS A VIBRATION THAT
PROPAGATES CARRYING
ENERGY FROM ONE PLACE TO
ANOTHER PLACE
 When an earthquake happen the
source of the earthquake is
actually far away from the area
affected.
 When earthquake happen all things
are wiggle and the ground is
shaking.
 So in fact, earthquake is happen
because of vibration.
 But why it affects a lot of area
coverage is because the vibration
is travels from one place to
another.
 Then it can destroys things such as
house, road, etc. because it carries
a lot of energy.
 So this is how actually a wave
happen, that is it was a vibration
that travels and carrying energy
along its travel.
 But wave didn’t carries particle or
IDEA 3
A LOT OF ADVANCED
TECHNOLOGY USING
VIBRATION AND WAVE
CONCEPTS THAT CONTRIBUTE
SIGNIFICANT POSITIVE
IMPACT FOR HUMAN.
 Vibration and wave is not only a
theories that we learn on the class
but it is actually already
implemented by the researcher to
make some advanced technology
 There are a lot of examples of
technology that using the concept
of wave and vibration in our daily
life, examples like:
 Satellites, when we watching TV
we can see all TV has same
different show because it
transmitted from the same source.
The way it is transmit is using the
electromagnetic wave where the
wave carrying digital data so that
our TV can receive it as
multimedia content.
 Phones and Wifi, how do we call
our friends with our smartphone or
exploring the internet is also the
 initial position.
 It can be illustrated as back-
equilibrium-front-equilibrium-
back.
 Vibration can also start from front
position, depend when is your
initial position.
 In vibration, there are amplitudes,
period, and frequencies.
 Amplitudes is the farthest distance
that you swing whether back or
front, from your equilibrium
points.
 Amplitudes can also be said as the
point when it carries the highest
amount of energy.
 While equilibrium point is the
point when it carries the lowest
point of energy.
 Period is the time needed to make
one vibration. It is often
represented as “T”.
 Period can be calculated by
calculate the time (t) divided by the
number vibration that happen (n)
 So we can say that T=t/n
 Frequency, is the number of
vibration that happen in one
second. It is usually represented by
“f”
 Frequency can be calculated by
the medium that’s why the soil
didn’t travel along with the
earthquake.
 One wave is created by one
vibration, it often represented by 
()
 Wave can be divided by its type of
medium:
 The first is mechanic wave, which
is a wave that require medium to
travel.
 The example of mechanic wave
are earthquake that travel through
the soil, and sound that can travel
through the air, solid, or water.
 The second one is electromagnetic
wave, which doesn’t require
medium to travel.
 The examples of the
electromagnetic waves are the
radio and light.
 If we see an earthquake news on
TV, we can see that the source is 
actually a tiny spot, but the
coverage is wide and shape a
circle.
 But when we vibrate a rope and
creating wave from it, it looks very
different.
 So there are actually two basic
types of mechanical waves:
implementation of the wave
concepts that works similarly like
TV but it has more range of wave
that is used.
Microwave, is commonly used to
cook or to heat something, how the
food getting heated is by vibrates
the particle into very high speed by
transmitting an electromagnetic
wave.
 Radar, it is a tool that commonly
used by the ships or plane, the way
that it is used is by transmitting the
wave into some location and using
the reflection wave as the
determination of distance of the
objects that reflects it. It is also the
same concepts how the USG works
on hospital and also the X-rays.
Furthermore this implementation is
actually used by animals such as
bat or dolphin.
Some medical tools also used wave
to detect organ disease like cancer
in our body and the wave also can
be used to cure it as a therapy.
 calculate the number of vibration
happen (n) and divide by its time
which is accomplished to that
number of vibration (t)
 So we can say that f=n/t
 Period can also be described as
T=1/f
 Frequency can also be described as
f=1/f
 Amplitude do not affect frequency
nor period.
 Vibration can also illustrated by
pendulum motion or vibrating a
ruler.
 The first is longitudinal wave,
which we can see when we make a
wave by a slinky that have the
characteristics that it has
compression and expansion phase.
 to find its length of one wave, we
can calculate it by; the distance
between one compression and one
expansion, distance of two
compression, or distance of two
expansion.
 The second one is the transverse
wave, which we can see by make a
vertical vibration of a rope. The
characteristics of transverse wave
is can be seen by its sine graph like
motion where there are hills and
valley.
 The easiest way to find one wave
of transverse wave is by measuring
the distance of one hill and one
valley, distance of two peak, or
distance of two lowest point.
 Just like a vibration, wave also has
amplitude, period, and frequency.
 Amplitude can be found by
calculating the distance of the
 equilibrium point to its peak or
lowest peak if the wave is
transverse wave.
 If its longitudinal wave we can see
how big is the amplitude by seeing
how compressed or how expand is
the wave.
 Because wave is moving over time
so wave has speed of propagation
which is often represented by (v).
 The speed of propagation of wave
can be found by divide the
wavelength () over period (T), or
wavelength () multiplied by
frequency (f). (v=/T, v=.f).

2 Why it is  Vibration is an entrance to the 
important for more advanced knowledge and
students to know topic to senior high school or in
this some of the technical college
program.
 Vibration also important for
student before they learn about 
wave and sound on the next topic.
 Vibration is relates with so many
phenomenon in daily life so it can
increase their scientific reasoning. 
 Students should be aware that
vibrations is a simple concept but
really important and advanced that
even used to explain the physical
Wave is also an entrance to more
advanced knowledge and topic to
senior high school or in some of
the technical college program.
 Wave is a very important topic
before learning about sound.
Wave is very relevant and relate to
so many daily life phenomenon so
that students can think more
scientifically.
Wave is relates to many advanced
technology basis of application, so
that students can think more
innovative and applicative by
learning this idea.
 This idea should motivate them to
be more spirit and enthusiast in
learning more about science and
technology in general so they learn
more by themselves.
 Students will learn that every
knowledge is useful for now and
then, and it is have a very great
impact to the society and
civilization.
 Students should be more motivated
to be make more achievement and
makes innovative creation in the
future for sake of the country.
 Students will learn that knowledge
 quantum phenomenon to celestial
phenomenon beyond our planet.
 By learning about this concept
students should learn that
everything has energy to do
something, so is students that they
also has energy but it may not
affects if we don’t use it.
 The higher the frequency the more
the energy, it can be analogized
that the more often we acts, the
greater impacts that we can get or
gives to others.
 In learning about vibration, things
always moves under some
circumstances and always moves
back to its initial position, this can
be a lesson that life is also like that.
Sometime we are on the upper, but
we will eventually got to the
lowest, by different events or time,
so students should learn to stay
humble and spirit in any condition.
3 What else you  Particle/atom vibration.
know about this  Kinetic energy calculation related
idea that you do to vibration and temperature.
not intend the  Vibration of objects on space
students to know phenomenon
 The conservative energy of
yet
vibration.
 Wave is happen because of
vibration and its carrying energy,
same with students that if we don’t
do anything so we don’t get or
produce anything. The way we can
do something is by start doing it 
and put some energy on it and the
energy wil just flows away.
 Students will learn that wave is
actually very complex yet very
advantageous for human, this
should increase their faith and
awareness of Greatness of the
Creator that makes all this things
can happen.
 The wavelength of electromagnetic
waves.
 The discreet theory of Max Planck
related to wave.
 The dualism of lights.
 The energy measurement of wave.
 The more detailed concepts of
earthquake regarding wave and
energy.
will be only a mind if they just
learn and do nothing about it, so
they will encouraged to more
practice what they learn whether it
is about science or not.
All of the technology described is
the positive technology, so that
students should be more motivated
to also make some great
achievements to deliver great help
and support to the society and
civilizations.
 The radioactive waves on the
nuclear reactor.
 The energy calculations of the
technology
 The relations between the
wavelength and the spectrum and
its effect to organic materials
 The use of wave as military
weapon
4 Difficulties/limita  It is often happen that students get
tions connected confused or get misconceptions
with teaching this because the common illustration is
idea by pendulum but the reality of
vibration is very detailed.
 In teaching this topic, students
might hard to get the concepts
about the relation of time and
frequency and it is often
intertwined.
 When doing experiment, a lot of
things is will happen different with
the literature.
 Students will also get obstacle on
determining the one vibration,
calculates the amplitude, and also
relates their experiment with the
real concepts of vibration
5 Knowledge about  Students might think that vibration
students’ thinking happen by only a vibrator
which influences  Students might think that vibration
your teaching of can only occurs with human acts or
external factors
this idea
 Students might think that
earthquake is vibration
 Students might think that vibration
doesn’t relate with energy
 Students might think that vibration
is only back and front motion
 Wave is one of the boring concepts
to be learned by the students
 Sometime it is hard to differentiate
the waves especially if we learns
detailed about the types and its
vector
 It is hard to differentiate in real life
phenomenon of which one is
transverse or longitudinal
 It is hard to measure the
longitudinal wave whether the
wavelength and the amplitude
 Sometime it is prone to
misconception because it is relates
each other and many examples are
intertwined like earthquake is often
explained as longitudinal but it is
also transverse
 Students might think that wave is
also carrying the medium or the
particle along the travel
 Students might think that
longitudinal wave doesn’t have the
amplitude
 Students might think that wave can
travel on an unlimited distance
 Students might think that wave can
only occur on earth
 Students might think that
electromagnetic waves only occur
because electricity
 Because it is advanced so this may
motivate them or makes them more
confused or lead them to
misconceptions
 If we learn too deep about the
technology students might get
more confused because the
principle is actually the same but
there are actually very different in
technical and conceptual use.
 It’s hard to decide where to put this
materials or if this idea is
independent meeting because this
idea is simple but if we merge it
with previous this can be too
burden the students
 Students might think that wave can
create some dangerous weapon in
the future
 Students might think that only
someone who really diligent or
genius that can make it
 Students might think that most of
the technology founded by
coincidence
 Students might think that the
technology is only for business and
political issue
 Students might think more about

6 Other factors that  Because the negative term of 
influence your “vibrator” because of the media
teaching of this and some social talk, students
idea might think differently about 
vibration and vibrator in the right
meaning.
 Because of some television show 
students might relate vibration to
some meta-physics phenomenon
7 Teaching At the beginning teacher will doing an
procedures (and apperception by showing a video of
particular reasons kids that playing on a cradle and
for using these to asking a lot of questions to the
engage with this students related to vibration
idea )
Then teacher will conduct experiment
with students with a miniature of
cradle where students should define
what vibration is and find its period,
amplitude and frequency by guided
inquiry experiment and worksheet.
At the end of the lesson students
should show and explain their result in
the front of the class and discuss about
it with their friends
Because of some show or video on
the internet students might agree
that love is also a wave
Because of some fictional movies
students might assume that wave is
dangerous product of some weapon
Because teacher often use slinky as
longitudinal wave example students
might think it couldn’t do
transverse wave
At the beginning teacher will bring up
slinky and ask the students to
demonstrate a vibration and make a
wave by the slinky and then teacher
encourage them to make types of wave
by the slinky
Then teacher will guide the students to
have some guided inquiry experiment
to differentiate between longitudinal
and transverse wave
At the end of the lesson teacher will do
some quick test to ascertain their
understanding
money and ego rather than
goodness for others
 Because of many advertisement
and video on the internet, they be
become anti-technology that using
wave because assuming that it is
dangerous
 Because of there are a lot of hoax
video about wave and free energy
on the internet students might
believe it and lead to
misconceptions
At the beginning teacher will show
them documentaries of some
technology about how it is find and
how it is impact to the society that
relates to vibration and waves.
Then teacher will encourage them to
make some poster about their favorite
technology that they consider gives
most significant impact to the society
and science world. In the class teacher
will provide them many books about
that and allow students to browse the
internet.
Then it has to be done as assignment
that should be collected on the next
week.
8 Specific way of  The next week teacher will give  By giving test at the end of the  By assess the poster especially the
ascertaining assessment in the form of essay and lesson directly and also checking content that relates to the science
students’ science process skill test along with their understanding while they concepts.
understanding or attitude test to the topic with likert doing the experiment  Quiz will also implemented based
scale. on their posters with some addition
confusion around
from teacher.
this idea (include
likely range of
response)
9 The use of  Laptop  Laptop  Laptop
technology in  Projector  Projector  Projector
teaching the idea  Speaker  Speaker  Speaker
 Miniature of cradle  Slinky  Books of Technology
 Measurement tools

10 How to  Teacher will do expository learning  Teacher will do expository learning  Teacher will encourage students to
compensate the with using a black/white board as with using a black/white board as make some clipping of local
absence of the media then illustrate the the media then illustrate the wave newspaper about anything that
technology vibration by using available things by using available things on the relates to the vibrations and wave
on the classroom whether making classroom whether making some and find the scientific explanation
pendulum by student’s shoe or long rope with their tie or shoe lace, about it and present it as the
illustrate the students as the even do some dancing of wave with substitute of the poster.
pendulum the students itself.