Monday, March 28, 2011

tuning fork lab

Guiding Question: How does the density of a material affect the properties of sound travelling from a tuning fork?

Hypothesis: I think the sound will travel slower through more dense material.

Materials:
Tuning fork
table
door
chair


Procedure:
1. Thought of which materials to use
2. We got a tuning fork
3. Banged it on the table to see how the sounds were
4. Banged it on the door to see hoe the sounds were
5. Banged it on the chair to see how the sound were
6. Wrote our analyzes




Conclusion: The sound of the table was the deepest of all. The door had a higher sound because f the material it was made of. The Chair had a quiet sound. The thing that was interesting is that all of them had long sounds for some reason. I would want to know why the lenght of the sounds were all the same.

Further Inquiry: If i could change this experiment i would have used different tuning forks. And maybe also change the materials we used.

1 comment:

  1. Good lab set up. However, when writing a procedure, remember that you need to add the details in each step so that someone else could replicate it exactly how you carried out the experiment. Good further inquiry. Why do you think they all had long sounds? Did they have similar materials or similar densities?

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