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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Physics LibreTexts - Waves. Sep 21, 2026
Add new Web site: Thompson Rivers University Pressbooks - Environmental Geology - Wave and Tidal Energy. Apr 16, 2026
Add new Web site: IOPscience - Introduction to waves (PDF). Jan 01, 2026
Add new Web site: College of DuPage - Conceptual Physics - Vibrations and waves. Nov 20, 2025
Add new Web site: Open Text WSU - Introductory Psychology - Waves and Wavelengths. Oct 07, 2025
Add new Web site: California Institute of Technology - The Feynman Lectures on Physics - Waves. Aug 29, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa - Exploring Our Fluid Earth - Wave and Wave Properties. Jul 11, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Victoria - Faculty and Staff - Introduction to the Physics of Waves and Sound (PDF). Apr 25, 2025
Add new Web site: Pressbooks - Understanding Sound - Wave basics. Feb 15, 2025
Add new Web site: Physics LibreTexts - Waves. Dec 20, 2024
Add new Web site: Science Learning Hub - Fundamentals of waves. Jul 29, 2024
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Introduction to waves. Apr 15, 2024
Add new Web site: Physics Classroom - Frequency and Period of a Wave. Mar 07, 2024
Add new Web site: Boston University Arts and Sciences - Waves. Mar 05, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Hawaiʻi Pressbooks - Psychology - Waves and Wavelength. Jan 25, 2024
Add new Web site: OpenStax - University Physics Volume 1 - Introduction. Nov 27, 2023
Add new Web site: The Physics Classroom - What is a Wave? Mar 27, 2023
Add new Web site: Physics LibreTexts - Waves. Dec 04, 2022
Add new Web site: OpenStax - Physics - Types of Waves. Aug 12, 2022
Add new Web site: Energy Education - Wave. May 09, 2022
Changed "wavelength divided by the frequency" to "wavelength multiplied by the frequency." Dec 22, 2016
Added a photograph of waves on water, a video about refraction, and diagrams of the Doppler effect and interference between waves. Apr 05, 2016
Article thoroughly revised. Apr 05, 2016
Add new Web site: The Physics Classroom - Waves. Oct 29, 2015
Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - Waves. Aug 26, 2010
New article added. Mar 17, 2009
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