How Are the Lips Creating Different Pitch Sounds From a Trumpet?
Guide students in exploring how lip vibrations produce different pitches in a trumpet by analyzing slow-motion video, using a Signal Generator and PhET simulation, and developing models to connect sound waves, frequency, and amplitude.
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Topics
- MS-PS4-2
- science of sound
- trumpets
- music science
- vibrations
- pitch
- frequency
- amplitude
- sound wave modeling
- air particle movement
- sound wave experiments
- wave properties