Sophia Learning
Sophia: Doppler Effect: Lesson 2
This lesson will describe how the doppler effect is created by moving sound waves. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Doppler Effect."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Doppler Effect: Lesson 3
This lesson will describe how the doppler effect is created by moving sound waves. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Doppler Effect."
Other
Architectural Acoustics and Lighting: Room Acoustics
This site from Architectural Acoustics and Lighting provides a discussion of various factors affecting the acoustics of a given room. Room dimensions, the wavelength of the sound wave, the physical characteristics of the walls, the...
Songs for Teaching
Sciences Songs All Day Long: Nocturnal Animals
By listening to this song your students will learn all of the animals that are awake during the night. They will equate the sounds they hear at night with the animals and their sounds in the song.
Other
French Horn Stopping Why the Pitch Shift?
The opening four points of this article point out the 4 special challenges of playing the modern French horn. When the player uses the "stopping mute", he/she must transpose the music down one semitone in order to play in the correct...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Wave Characteristics Review
Review the characteristics of periodic transverse and longitudinal waves such as wavelength, crest, trough, amplitude, expansion, and compression.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Anechoic Chamber
A photo taken from the inside of an anechoic chamber. The effect of rebounding sound waves is kept to a minimum in such an anechoic chamber thanks to the large surface area that absorbs most of the noise.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Deep Knee Bends: Measuring Knee Stress With a Mechanical Model
Prosthetic limbs and artificial joints can help people with disease or injury lead a normal life. Sports medicine or physical therapy is also an area that relates to this experiment. Either way, this project serves as a good match if any...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Hermann Von Helmholtz
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (August 31, 1821 - September 8, 1894) was a German physician and physicist who made significant contributions to several widely varied areas of modern science. In physiology and physiological...
University of Maryland
Thinking Problems in Oscillations and Waves
A series of thought-provoking, multichoice questions from the University of Maryland on the topic of oscillations and waves. Equations for calculating the period of motion for masses on springs, pendulums, sounds, and waves on a string...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: An Electrostatics Puzzler
A simple demonstration will tests students' understanding of electrostatics. This puzzler stumps even experienced physics educators and is sure to entertain a physics class. A plastic rod is charged using a piece of animal fur. The rod...
Curated OER
Grace's Warbler, Male
This concise Grace's Warbler site provides clear facts about the physical characteristics, range, conservation status and more. Listen to the sounds of this bird species on this site as well.
Curated OER
Grace's Warbler
This concise Grace's Warbler site provides clear facts about the physical characteristics, range, conservation status and more. Listen to the sounds of this bird species on this site as well.
Curated OER
Grace's Warbler
This concise Grace's Warbler site provides clear facts about the physical characteristics, range, conservation status and more. Listen to the sounds of this bird species on this site as well.
Curated OER
Avatar Consultants, Inc: Tuning, Scales, and Temperament
A discussion of the composition of complex sounds produced by a musical instrument. Good illustration of how music is applied to physics. Quite a bit of good information, several pages linked together with good definitions as well as...
Curated OER
Avatar Consultants, Inc: Tuning, Scales, and Temperament
A discussion of the composition of complex sounds produced by a musical instrument. Good illustration of how music is applied to physics. Quite a bit of good information, several pages linked together with good definitions as well as...