Physics Girl
Experiments with $100,000+ Speakers
Join Physics Girl and PBS Digital Studios' new show SoundField as they experiment with giant $100,000 speakers and aim them at your body parts looking for resonance, at oobleck, at googly eyes, and at candles to explore the physics of...
Physics Girl
Singing this Note is IMPOSSIBLE!
Try to sing the impossible note! Singers try to sing into a pipe, and find certain notes are impossible to sing, even for professionals. WHY?! More facts: Most objects have a number of different resonant frequencies. The first resonance...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Design Squad: Sound
In this video segment adapted from Design Squad, a PBS TV series featuring high school contestants tackling engineering challenges, learn about the fundamentals of sound as student teams create percussive and stringed instruments for a...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: How Music Works
How do we perceive sounds as music or as noise? It all depends on the physics of sound. Aired Nov. 19, 2010 [19:21]