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Energy in the Air: Sounds from the Orchestra
Explores the sounds from a symphony orchestra, with historical facts, several sound samples and illustrations for each instrument group.
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Quality, Sound
Sound "quality" or "timbre" describes those characteristics of sound which allow the ear to distinguish sounds which have the same pitch and loudness.
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Sounds Amazing
A nice site designed to help students to understand sound and waves, very well presented. There are acoustic and audio related web demonstrations and experiments.
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Radio Transmission
Even today it seems like magic. You turn on your radio and, somehow, sound sent from a distant radio station fills the room. For almost 100 years radio has allowed us to send sounds over the air. ...
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Play a Piano / Synthesizer / Oscilloscope
This virtual reality Java piano lets you play the piano and have a little fun while learning the relationship between the sounds, music theory, musical scales, and the underlying math and physics of ...
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Introduction to sound
The basics of sound waves, including really useful animations of how sound travels
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Microphone
Microphones are transducers which detect sound signals and produce an electrical image of the sound, i.e., they produce a voltage or a current which is proportional to the sound signal.
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Sound Propagation
Good clear introduction to sound concepts with diagrams, including why you sound good singing in the shower!
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Sound
A worksheet and lesson plan for younger pupils. Objective: Sound is caused by vibrations in matter. Vibrations can travel through objects. In particular, they can travel through air (and thus reach ...
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Reverberation Time
The reverberant sound in an auditorium dies away with time as the sound energy is absorbed by multiple interactions with the surfaces of the room. In a more reflective room, it will take longer for ...
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