Instructors are always looking for ideas and methods to deliver lessons and it’s sometimes difficult
to pass along abstract concepts to students. Here, we have developed an ‘all in one’ summary of wave
mechanics from start to finish then connected to solving for the wave equation. The connections
between underlying concepts are assembled here such that laboratory exercises flow from one concept
to the next, while leaving opportunity for review and re-teaching supporting topics. Using no
special equipment, which is particularly useful for public schools, and technology that is widely
available and often free to use, makes this approach especially attractive. The employment of
mathematical transforms adds more here than a typical pendulum lab would contain while using most of
the equations found in a typical physics textbook that apply to SHM, while simultaneously revisiting
and reviewing previous concepts.