Sound inquiry

Hi students,

Here are some of the links where you can hear and see more about sound wave: Sound Wave Applet | Online Tuning Fork | Virtual Keyboard

Learn more about Bell Jar Experiment here:
Science of Sound - Bell Jar | Bell in a Bell Jar - An Interactive Animation

We will take a look at the bell jar experiment when we go to the laboratory on 23 March 2010. Please fill in this pre-activity online worksheet before our lab activity on 23 March 2010.

Cosmic rays

When going through EM spectrum slides (after the little pop quiz based on the EM spectrum song) with 3H today, we read that 2 of the sources of gamma rays are radioactive substances and cosmic rays and some of you have questions about cosmic rays.

I have found a link for you to read if you are interested in finding out more about cosmic rays: Read more about cosmic rays here.

Science Court: Heat & Expansion

Sound waves

"Educational film that covers the basics of acoustics. How sound propagates through a medium, pitch, timbre, loudness etc. Dated but accurate."

Firewalking

This is good to know, but please do not try this yourself!



Read more about it here: How can you walk across hot coals?

Molecules in Motion

Sing along!

Where is the wave?

If you've written a song or made an MTV on a physics topic and uploaded it somewhere on the WWW, please share the link with me so I can feature it in my blog here. Thanks!