Questions of the Week
What is a disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another?
How does light spread out?
What is a medium?
What is a crest?
What is a trough?
Scientist of the Week
I was born on April 14, 1629.
I was a Dutch physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and inventor.
I am widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time and a major figure in the scientific revolution.
In physics, I made groundbreaking contributions in optics and mechanics.
My most famous invention was the pendulum clock which I invented in 1656.
Daily Questions
What is the ability to cause change?
What happens to a slinky that you hold up by one end, above the ground when you let go of the end you are holding?
What is matter that is disturbed by energy traveling as a wave?
What is the area in a longitudinal wave where the particles are farthest apart?
What is the SI unit for frequency?