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UNIT 1
MODULE 2: OSCILLATIONS AND WAVES (cont’d)

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES EXPLANATORY NOTES SUGGESTED PRACTICAL
ACTIVITIES

Harmonic Motion (cont’d)

Students should be able to:
1.3
1.10. explain how damping is Use examples such as
achieved in some real-life motor vehicle suspension,
examples. rally car driving, analogue
electrical meters and door
closures.

2. Properties of Waves

Students should be able to:

2.1. use the following terms: Explanation through the
displacement, amplitude, use of graphs and sketches.
period, frequency, velocity
in relation to the behaviour
of waves;

2.2. differentiate between Explanation of the Use virtual labs (PhET Suite).
transverse and longitudinal movement of particles in
mechanical waves; the medium of transmission
and the energy of the
waves.

2.3. represent transverse and
longitudinal waves
graphically;

2.4. explain “polarisation”; Give examples of polarised
waves.
2.5. use the equation = to
solve problems involving
wave motion;

2
2.6. use the relationship ∝
intensity is proportional to
2
(amplitude) for a wave;

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