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Idea Bank: A Resonance Tube Experiment Using "Boomwhackers"

Bring the "sound of music" to your science classroom--this activity uses the lengths and fundamental frequencies of a set of resonance tubes to verify the expression for the relationship between these two quantities and the value of the speed of sound. Students blow into one end of the boomwhackers and capture the sound onto a computer. Analysis of the resulting waveform provides an excellent introduction to the mathematical relationships between the musical intervals in a scale.
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