Simple Harmonic Motion

Students investigate a spring, a pendulum and pasta w/raisins or marshmallows to determine if the period depends on length, amplitude and mass for each oscillator.

Sound Lab Concept Questions

Sound Wave Lab

Students use the “Sound” simulation from the PhET Interactive Simulations to understand how different sounds are modeled, described and produced.

Sound Lab Concept Questions

Elephant Acoustics

This assignment consists of a series of conceptual questions about a website article on elephant acoustics encouraging the students to connect what they’ve learned about the physics of sound with how elephants hear and make sound.

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Perception

This presentation includes more than an hour of slides which have a section on speech intelligibility and acoustician careers.

Sound Lab Concept Questions

The Doppler Effect

Students experience the Doppler effect by watching videos and teacher demonstrations of how pitch changes followed up with a whole class discussion.