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Name: Talking about Sound and Music
ID: m12373
Language: English (en)
Summary: For middle school and up, an introduction to some acoustics terms and how they relate to music.
Subject: Arts
Keywords: acoustics, amplitude, frequency, longitudinal waves, music, pitch, sound, sound waves, standing waves, transverse waves, wavelength, waves
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 1.0
Authors: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Copyright Holders: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Maintainers: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Latest version: 1.4 (history)
First publication date: Sep 1, 2004 2:45 pm GMT-5
Last revision to module: Jun 20, 2006 3:14 pm GMT-5
Module XML: m12373_1.4.cnxml

Version History

Version: 1.4 Jun 20, 2006 3:14 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Fixed fig 1
Version: 1.3 Mar 29, 2006 11:03 am US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
updated figures and links
Version: 1.2 Apr 6, 2005 12:38 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Extensively updated links.
Version: 1.1 Sep 10, 2004 3:02 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Breaking m11060 into smaller modules.

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