Curated OER
Typical Conceptual Questions for Physics I - Waves, Electricity, and Magnetism
This wave and electromagnetism assignment is so thorough, it could be used as a unit exam. The first section of it covers wave concepts. The next section addresses static electricity. There is a section that deals with electric circuits....
Curated OER
Music Theory - Intervals
Students explore types of intervals containing major and minor sixths. While using Auralia computer software, they participate in a game to identify sharp and flat pitches. Afterwards, they identify the pitches by ear and listen to...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Guitar Jingle: Discovering the Locations of Harmonics
In this music science fair project, students will discover the locations of harmonics on an acoustic guitar and relate them to guitar string lengths.
San Diego State University
Sd State: Elements of Music: Media, Genre, Form Texture
One of the elements of music is "Texture." This site gives the definition, which basically is the relationship between melodic and harmonic.
University of New South Wales (Australia)
Univ of New South Wales: Musical Acoustics: Strings, Standing Waves, Harmonics
The production of a standing wave in a string is presented and discussed in this site. Exceptional diagrams are accompanied by thorough explanation and mathematical analysis to explain the various modes of vibrations.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Hanging Out With Galileo
Students isolate the factors that determine the period of a pendulum, and then test their hypotheses to determine if their experimental results come close to the mathematical results.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Wave: Mathematics of Standing Waves
Students analyze harmonic patterns through several example problems and interactive practice examples.
Interactive Mathematics
Interactive Mathematics: Line Spectrum
Using Fourier and Harmonic series, the line spectrums of functions are derived and represented on graphs. Several music examples show the connection between harmonics and sound.
Interactive Mathematics
Interactive Mathematics: Harmonic Analysis
Derived from the Fourier series, the harmonic series can be used to represent even and odd functions. Definitions of second and third harmonics are also provided.
Other
Math Pages: Bernoulli Numbers and Harmonic Series
This site from Math Pages contains information explaining harmonic series. The information is very in-depth and mathematic, but good factual information is provided. A good overall site.