CLIP 1604
Understanding sound
Key Info
- Title: Understanding sound
- Duration: 00:25
- Description: Sounds are produced by vibrations. You can feel these when you put your fingers against your throat. A violin bow causes a string to vibrate, lips vibrating cause the sound produced by brass instruments. By rubbing the handles of a bowl, it can be made to vibrate and when it does the water contained in it vibrates. Polystyrene balls on the surface of a drum illustrate how a small sound is caused by a small vibration. The size of a vibration is called the amplitude. The bigger the amplitude is the louder the sound.
- Subject: Science Topic: Sound
- Keywords: sound, vibrations, amplitude, quiet, loud, violin, strings, brass, instruments, water
Ideas for use in class
- This clip could be used in Science or Music lessons to allow students to see that sounds are produced by vibrations.
Background details
- Clip language : English
- Aspect ratio : 16x9
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