Lesson
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1. What is a wave?
2. What is the wave
‘speed equation?
3. What is the Doppler
effect?
4, What is the
electromagnetic
spectrum?
5. What is refiection?
6. What is refraction?
7. What is the critical
angle?
8. What is sound?
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P3. Waves
Learning objective Before After
Use the following units: degree (o), hertz (Hz), metre (m), metre/second (m/s) and second (6)
Explain the difference between longitudinal and transverse waves.
Know the definitions of amplitude, wavefront, frequency, wavelength and period of a wave.
Know that waves transfer energy and information without transferring matter,
Know and use the relationship between the speed, frequency and wavelength of a wave: wave speed = frequency x wavelength, v=
Use the relationship between frequency and time peri
Use the above relationships in different contexts including sound waves and electromagnetic waves
Explain why there is a change in the observed frequency and wavelength of a wave when its source is moving relative to an observer,
‘and that this is known as the Doppler effect.
Explain that all waves can be reflected and refracted.
Know that light is part of a continuous electromagnetic spectrum that includes radio, microwave, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-ray and
gamma ray radiations and that all these waves travel at the same speed in free space,
yuency = 1 / time period, f= 1/7
Know the order of the electromagnetic specturm in terms of decreasing wavelength and increasing frequency, including the colors of
the visible spectrum.
Explain some of the uses of electromagnetic radiations, including: radio waves broadcasting and communications, microwaves
cooking and satelite transmissions, infrared heaters and night vision equipment, visible light optics fibers and photography, ultraviolet
escent lamps, x-rays observing the internal structure of objects and materials, including or medical apy
ing food and medi
equipment.
Explain the detrimental effects of excessive exposure of the human body to electromagnetic waves, including: microwaves internal
heating of body tissue, infrared skin bur
describe simple protective measures against the risks.
Know that light waves are transverse waves and that they can be reflected and refracted.
Use the law of reflection (the angle of incidence equais the angle of reflection)
strate reflection and refraction.
itraviolet damage to surface cells and blindness, gamma rays cancer, mutation and
Draw ray diagrams to
Practical: investigate the refraction of light, using rectangular blocks, semi-circular blocks and triangular prisms.
Know and use the relationship between refractive index, angle of incidence and angle of refraction: n = sin i/ sin r
Practical; investigate the refractive index of glass, using a glass block.
Describe the role of total
Explain the meaning of critical angle c.
Know and use the relationship between critical angle and refractive index: sin ¢ = 1/n
Know that sound waves are longitudinal waves which can be reflected and refracted.
1l reflection in transmitting information along optical fibers and in prisms.Knowledge organiser
IGCSE Physics: 3. Waves
Quantity Unit
Wave speed. v mis (rs)
Frequency, Heortisie4
Time pevod, T .
Wavelength, x m Puier
‘Amplitude, A m Fler
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Reflection and Refraction of Waves
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Draw a Ray Diagram for a Refracted WaveRefractive Index and Snell’s Law Refractive Index and Critical Angles
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