Multimedia Waves is a CD-ROM resource for Physics education. It presents 90+ movie sequences of wave machine and ripple tank wave demonstrations for observation and analysis. The sequences include examples of wave pulses, travelling waves, standing waves, plane waves, circular waves and the reflection, refraction, superposition, diffraction and interference of waves.

Software provided on the disc supports both qualitative and quantitative investigations of wave motion and effects. Students explore the wave sequences frame-by-frame, plotting points, lines or circles to track the motion of features such as wave crests and plane or circular wave fronts. Co-ordinates, lengths, angles and speeds can be recorded and graphed or exported to investigate, for example, the link between wave speed, frequency and wavelength, the laws of reflection and refraction, or the factors governing the diffraction and interference of waves.