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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Open End Air Columns
Through illustrated diagrams and interactive practice examples, students explore the physics of sound in open-end air column musical instruments.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Closed End Air Columns
Through illustrated diagrams and interactive practice examples, students explore the physics of sound in closed-end air column musical instruments.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Interference and Beats
Illustrated diagrams and interactive practice problems show constructive and destructive interference occurring at sound beats.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: The Human Ear
Using diagrams and animations, students discover how the anatomy of the ear and the physics of sound waves work together to allow us to hear.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves & Music: Reflection, Refraction, Diffraction
In this illustrated physics tutorial, students learn about sound wave behaviors and apply them to the reflection, diffraction, and refraction of sound waves.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Sound Is a Mechanical Wave
This interactive physics tutorial allows students to investigate the nature, properties and behaviors of sound waves and apply basic wave principles towards an understanding of music.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Intensity and the Decibel Scale
Students explore intensity of sound waves and the decibel scale in this interactive physics tutorial.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Sound as a Longitudinal Wave
Students explore and discover how sound is created through longitudinal waves.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Pitch and Frequency
Use this interactive physics tutorial to introduce students to the concepts of pitch and frequency in sound waves.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Sound Is a Pressure Wave
Students see illustrated diagrams and animations to help them understand the pressure characteristics of a sound wave.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Boundary Behavior
Students study animations and diagrams to learn about the reflection behavior of sound waves.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Sound and Music
Introduce some activities that introduce students to the physics of sound. They will also learn how various instruments produce sound. Included are downloadable pdf worksheets and answer sheets to use.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Resonance
The focus of this physics tutorial is on the application of mathematical relationships and standing wave concepts to musical instruments in three general categories of instruments: instruments with vibrating strings, open-end air column...
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: The Speed of Sound
Students discover factors that affect the speed of sound waves through a medium with illustrated examples and interactive practice problems.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: The Doppler Effect and Shock Waves
This physics tutorial focuses on the application of the Doppler effect to sound.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Standing Wave Patterns
Elaborate on the essential characteristics and the causes of standing wave patterns and relate these patterns to the vibrations of musical instruments.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Forced Vibration
With videos, illustrated diagrams, and informational text, students learn about sound waves as forced vibrations.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Wave and Music Table of Contents
Learners investigate the nature of a sound wave, sound properties, resonance, musical instruments, and standing waves. The tutorial consists of lessons and problems to check for understanding.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Properties and Their Perception
The concept of pitch and frequency is covered in this tutorial. Learn what frequency and pitch are, the difference between infra sound and ultrasonic frequencies, and how pitch is related to the frequency of a sound.
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The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Natural Frequency
Through animations, videos, and text, students discover that all objects have a natural frequency or set of frequencies at which they vibrate.
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Physics and Psychophysics of Music
This site is filled with information pertaining to the physics of sound and music.
University of New South Wales (Australia)
University of New South Wales: Music Acoustics
Learn about the science of music acoustics. Topics such as how do violins change with age and brass acoustics are explored through scientific research.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Sound Interference and Resonance: Standing Waves in Air Columns
By the end of this section, you will be able to define antinode, node, fundamental, overtones, and harmonics; identify instances of sound interference in everyday situations; describe how sound interference occurring inside open and...
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Musical Instruments
Homepage for a hypertext about the different families of musical instruments. From this page, users can retrieve information on a the acoustics of a variety of specific instruments: stringed instruments, woodwind instruments, brass...