CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Frequency and Pitch of Sound
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores the pitch of sound, how it relates to the frequency of sound waves, and what infrasound and ultrasound are.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Longitudinal Waves and Guitar Strings
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.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Longitudinal Waves and Tuning Forks
This resource explores how vibrating objects produce sound waves. The site contains information and an animation.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Sound Intensity Problem
In this problem you must determine the intensity of a sound wave when it reaches a given location away from its source.
Read Works
Read Works: How to See Sound
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text showing how to see sound waves. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Is a Pressure Wave
This physics tutorial invites users to discover how sound is a pressure wave. Be sure to view the animation.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Is a Mechanical Wave
This physics tutorial invites users to discover that sound is a mechanical wave. Be sure click on the animation for further study.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: The Doppler Effect and Shock Waves
This physics tutorial focuses on the application of the Doppler effect to sound.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Open End Air Columns
Through illustrated diagrams and interactive practice examples, students explore the physics of sound in open-end air column musical instruments.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Closed End Air Columns
Through illustrated diagrams and interactive practice examples, students explore the physics of sound in closed-end air column musical instruments.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Standing Wave Patterns
Elaborate on the essential characteristics and the causes of standing wave patterns and relate these patterns to the vibrations of musical instruments.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Resonance
The focus of this physics tutorial is on the application of mathematical relationships and standing wave concepts to musical instruments in three general categories of instruments: instruments with vibrating strings, open-end air column...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Waves: Behavior of Waves: Interference of Waves
Students discover wave interference, the phenomenon that occurs when two waves meet while traveling along the same medium.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Speed of Sound
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What the speed of sound is and its variation in different media, and the effect of temperature on the speed of sound.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Wave on String Lab
This lab is designed to help students discover the connections between the linear density of a string and the tension in the string with the speed of the wave along the string. The program can be set with six identical strings or six...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Interference and Beats
Illustrated diagrams and interactive practice problems show constructive and destructive interference occurring at sound beats.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Resonance and Sound Waves
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate the conditions for resonance, and then solve problems with strings and pipes using the condition for resonance.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Waves and Sound: Mass on a Spring Interactive
Students can investigate with this realistic, richly-interactive environment for investigating the periodic motion of a mass on a spring.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Nature of Sound With a Slinky
A physics lesson where students investigate how sound can be produced and changed. Students identify vibrations as the source of sound and how it can be amplified and received, and then explore the use of a slinky to explain the nature...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Physical Science: Characteristics of Sound
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses sound waves and properties of sound.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Auditorium Acoustics
Home page for a hypertext physics course on auditorium acoustics and acoustical design.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Architecture for Acoustics
A physics tutorial on designing an auditorium and solving the problem of sound reflection. Illustrated.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Reverberation
A tutorial from a hypertext physics course book that discusses reverberation. Illustrated.