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Year 9

Oscillations

Define oscillations, measure time period, calculate frequency, and use straight-line graph methods to find unknown quantities.

Part of Year 9 Physics Foundations.

Topic Overview

What students will cover

This topic helps you connect timing measurements, repeated motion, and graph methods. You should become comfortable with the language of amplitude, period, and frequency and with using data to extract a relationship.

As you move from measurement to graph work, keep checking what each number means in the physical situation.

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  • oscillation

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  • amplitude

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  • period

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  • frequency

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  • pendulum

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  • reaction time

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  • straight-line graph

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  • gradient

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  • repeated motion

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  • timing

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  • swing

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  • stopwatch

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  • time

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  • distance

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  • equation

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  • hertz

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  • calculation

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  • graph

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