Grade Range: 6-12Resource Type(s): Interactives & MediaDuration: 3 MinutesDate Posted: 3/23/2012
Meet Steven Turner, curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, as he discusses the Smithsonian's scientific instrument collection. This video focuses models used to represent the movement of sound waves, including demonstrations of wave models by Kohl, Ricky, and Crova, as well as a projected lantern wave model. This is the second video in a series of five.
Demonstrations, Museum education
This is a set of eight "dropping sticks" used to teach acoustics. It was made in Paris by the fam...
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