Sound | Design Your Own Experiment
Design Your Own Experiment
How to Select a Topic Relating to this Concept
Are you interested in the frequency of vibrations and the pitches they produce, how to amplify sound to make it louder, or how to direct where the sound waves go? Maybe you are interested in how sound waves travel through different materials, such as gases, water, and solids. Would you like to make your own instruments and experiment with the sounds they make?
Check the For More Information section and talk with your science teacher or school or community media specialist to start gathering information about sound questions that interest you.
Steps in the Scientific Method
To do an original experiment, you need to plan carefully and think things through. Otherwise you may not be sure what question you are answering, what you are or should be measuring, or what your findings prove or disprove.
Here are the steps in...
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