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Experimenting with Guitar Strings

The Physics Teacher -- November 2006 -- Volume 44, Issue 8, pp. 509-511

Issue Date: November 2006
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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords
PACS
  • 01.50.Pa
    Laboratory experiments and apparatus for education
  • 43.75.+a
    Music and musical instruments
  • 46.40.-f
    Vibrations and mechanical waves
  • YEAR: 2006

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Michael C. LoPresto
Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI
What follows is a description of a simple experiment developed in a nonmathematical general education science course on sound and light for fine arts students in which a guitar is used with data collection hardware and software to verify the properties of standing waves on a string.

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