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Can You Carry a Tune in a Bucket?

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Students use water filled pipes to play a tune and consider the mathematics behind the sound waves. In this sound wave lesson, students play a tune with water filled pipes. They create a mathematical model to evaluate the wavelengths and frequencies of the sounds.

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sound waves, sound, wave energy, waves, wavelength

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frequency, sound waves, wave energy, wavelength, math
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10th - 12th
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Math
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