| Science of Sound - A partnership site between the Science Museum and the Minnesota Orchestra, exploring the science and art of sound by offering performance, activities, and discussion sections.
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| Sound Waves and the Eardrum - Glenbrook South Physics Home Page.
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| Radio Transmission - Learn about the different stages of radio transmission, how radio waves are emitted, and the difference between AM and FM radio.
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| Sound is Energy - Find out about sound waves, and how their graph varies with change of pitch and volume. Check out the experiments which show that sounds are vibrations.
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| Household Science for Kids: Sound and Noise - Projects to help demonstrate some of the physics of sound.
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| Doppler Effect Activity - This shockwave activity shows the way that waves originate from a single moving source, and provides a link to the same activity using two sources.
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| Longitudinal Wave Activity - See how the particles move, and the graphs for acceleration, velocity and displacement when the sound frequency is changed in this activity.
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| How Ultrasound Works - Learn about how waves are reflected as they travel through various objects, and how these reflections are used to produce images for medical use.
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| Acoustics Careers and Research Areas - The field of acoustics, because it is so diverse, offers many different career opportunities.
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| Doppler Effect Demonstration - A Java Applet showing the how wave fronts cause the doppler effect.
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| The Doppler Effect and Sonic Booms - Explore in detail the wave front diagrams of stationary and moving sources at both subsonic and supersonic velocities.
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| The Physics Classroom - The sound section of a more diverse site. Contains lots of information and fully explained diagrams. Check your understanding with a quiz at the end.
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| Doppler radar is a key forecasting tool - Find out how the doppler effect is used to read the weather, and how it can be used in short term weather prediction.
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| The vOICe Sonification Applet - Draw your own Sound - Explore synthetic sound and vision with this voice mapping java applet. Sonify the premade images, or make your own.
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| Standing Sound Waves - Uses diagrams to show pressure nodes and internodes of harmonics in a pipe.
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| The Physics of Sound - Uses graphs to explain production and perception of sound.
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| Sound - Elucidates traveling and standing waves using diagrams to show harmonic and overtone wave patterns.
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| Sound, Light and Radio Waves - Frequency, amplitude and wavelength effect waves of sound, radio, light in different ways. Changing one of these characteristics affects the others.
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| Waves Lecture - Power point slides covering wave speed and pulses, energy, superposition, standing waves, doppler effect, Huygen's principle, refraction, interference, and diffraction gratings.
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| Music Acoustics (at the University of New South Wales, Sydney) - Introductory pages on music acoustics in general, and more specialised pages on the acoustics of flutes, violins, guitars, speech and on cochlear implants.
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| Sounds Amazing - Learn all about sounds and waves through a graphical-learning based interface in four lessons.
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| Looking at Sound - Detailed look at how sound can be analyzed with a microphone and oscilloscope with clear examples of expected results.
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