PBS
Pbs Kids: Animations: What Is Sound?
Narrated animation that visually explains how an object vibrating produces sound. (30 secs) Uses QuickTime.
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Harmonics
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the wavelength of a standing wave is determined by the boundary length and frequency of the wave. The fundamental frequency has a wavelength double the boundary length. Harmonics are built on the...
PBS
Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: The Way Things Move: Sounds of Silence, Pt. 2
Discover sounds when Quack gives Chirp the silent treatment, and Chirp gets stranded in a puddle. [8:50]
Crash Course
Crash Course Physics #18: Sound
We learn a lot about our surroundings thanks to sound. What is sound? And how does it travel? And what is this Doppler Effect that we've heard so much about? In this video episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini goes over some of the...
Crash Course
Crash Course Physics #19: The Physics of Music
Music plays a big part in many of our lives. Whether you just like to listen or you enjoy playing an instrument, music is powerful. So what is music? How does it work? What are the physics of music? In this video episode of Crash Course...
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Reflection Seismology: Seeing Below the Ground
How do seismologists actually see the images in the layers of Earth below us? Find out in this video clip. [0:46]
The Kid Should See This
Tksst: Cymatics: Science and Music Equals Audio Frequency Visualizations
New Zealand musician Nigel Stanford showcases audio frequency visualizations in this music video. [5:52]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sound and Solids: Stereo Hangers
This video segment, adapted from ZOOM, explores how sound waves travel differently through solids than through air, in this case, a metal clothes hanger. [1:14]
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr Videos: Skunk Bear: What Does Sound Look Like?
You can actually see sound waves as they travel through the air thanks to a clever photographic trick. [2:31]
Other
Online Tone Generator
Change the hertz, frequency, and volume with this online tone generator.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Beat Frequency
David explains what beat frequency means, how to find it, and solves a sample problem involving beat frequency. [11:48]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Standing Waves in Closed Tubes
Find out why you can make music by blowing into empty bottles. [9:57]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Relative Speed of Sound in Solids, Liquids, and Gases
This article from Khan Academy provides information about sound and how it travels through different media. This information is intended for high school physics students.
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Sound: What Makes Sound, and How Does It Travel? Student Interview
In this interview before instruction, a first-grade student describes his initial ideas about what makes sound and how sound travels. [4:38]
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Sound: Interpreting a Model of Sound Waves
This video shows students engaged in a large group discussion to interpret the observations they made of moving sound waves. [4:25]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Why Do Sounds Get Softer?
A video explaining two reasons why sounds would have to get softer as you get further from the source. [8:47]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Challenge: Get Loud!
For a bigger and better light show, try experimenting with amplitude, frequency, and even the source of the sound (try your favorite song). Add in a friend and you"ve now got a dueling laser-light show!
Next Vista for Learning
Next Vista for Learning: Music's True Form
A short video explaining that music is a sound produced by oscillations of pressure through a solid, liquid, and gas with a frequency within range of hearing. [1:30]
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Cool Sound Vibrations
Watch this video to see how sound waves travel through water. [0:34]
Other
Mr. E Science: Physical Science: Chapter 8 Sound
Teacher created, flipped video to teach about sound. [21:57]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Sound Waves
Mr. Andersen explains how sound waves are created and perceived. A brief discussion of pitch and loudness are included. A generated sound of varying pitches is also included.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Doppler Effect
Learn about the Doppler effect and what causes it.