A teacher uses a long slinky spring stretched along a bench to demonstrate waves.
Describe how the teacher could use the slinky spring to show:
the difference between transverse and longitudinal waves
that the wave travels along the slinky but the coils of the slinky do not.
112 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Physics 4.1 Wave properties, covering 4.1.1 Waves transfer energy and information, 4.1.2 Frequency, wavelength, amplitude, period and wavefronts, 4.1.3 Longitudinal and transverse waves, 4.1.4 The wave speed equations, 4.1.5 Measuring wave velocity, and 4.1.6 Calculating depth or distance from waves. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.