Summary
Bill makes waves in water, ropes, and air to show how they carry energy from place to place with patterns you can measure.
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Discussion
Bill makes waves in water, ropes, and air to show how they carry energy from place to place with patterns you can measure..
- What does a wave carry from one place to another?
- What changes between a big wave and a small one?
- Do waves move the water itself across the ocean, or the energy?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: wave, amplitude, wavelength.
Try it: Shake a rope to make big and small waves and describe how the wave changes.