Grade Range: 6-12Resource Type(s): Interactives & MediaDuration: 4 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 the science behind and uses for tuning forks, including demonstrations of tuning forks on resonators, the Grand Tonometer, a medical tuning fork, and a beats apparatus. This is the third 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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