A reference page including content and animations on longitudinal waves. Understand how sound waves are produced from vibrations in guitar strings to produce longitudinal waves.

A guitar string has a number of frequencies at which it will naturally vibrate. These natural frequencies are known as the harmonics of the guitar string. Students work through several example problems.

Music can loosely be defined as organized sound. The instructional activity objectives, understanding sound is a form of energy, understanding pitch, understanding sound traveling through a medium, and being able to separate music from...

Science instruction is most effective when using a hands-on delivery system. This lesson plan will use your students' natural affinity for music and musical instruments to reinforce and refine their knowledge of the nature of sound -...

At this site explore the relationship between audibility and frequency of sound, and the difference between frequency and volume.

This site provides an experiment where students create a guitar to discover what variables will change sound.

In this lesson, students collect data, graph it, then determine the period and frequency of the sound waves made by a guitar.

Homepage for a hypertext about the different families of musical instruments. From this page, users can retrieve information on a the acoustics of a variety of specific instruments: stringed instruments, woodwind instruments, brass...

Experience how vibrations make sound by constructing a guitar using rubber bands and a cereal box.

In this activity, students work with partners to create four different instruments to investigate the frequency of the sounds they make. Students may chose to make a shoebox guitar, water glass xylophone, straw panpipe or a soda bottle...