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Name: Standing Waves and Musical Instruments
ID: m12413
Language: English (en)
Summary: For middle school and up, an explanation of how standing waves in musical instruments produce sounds with particular pitches and timbres.
Subject: Arts
Keywords: aerophone, chordophone, frequency, fundamental, harmonics, idiophone, membranophone, pipes, standing waves, strings, 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)
Version: 1.8 (history)
Created: Sep 1, 2004 8:41 am GMT-5
Revised: Oct 4, 2007 12:23 pm GMT-5

Version History

Version: 1.8 Oct 4, 2007 12:23 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
changed svg and eps files of altered figure to outline form
Version: 1.7 Oct 3, 2007 12:25 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
fixed typos, including in displacement-waves figure
Version: 1.6 May 17, 2007 2:45 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
rewrote paragraph on types of standing wave containers
Version: 1.5 May 9, 2007 12:05 pm GMT-5 by Chuck Bearden
Changes: 
altered longitudinal waves file for good PDF
Version: 1.4 Aug 24, 2006 10:23 am GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Added figures and rewrote some text.
Version: 1.3 Jan 10, 2006 2:50 pm US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Redid figures. Took out "suggestions for presenting these ideas to children" to publish in a separate module.
Version: 1.2 Apr 6, 2005 2:18 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Added link
Version: 1.1 Oct 29, 2004 4:09 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
New module (originally part of m11060).

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