Blowing bottletops: making music with s bottles

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rachelet
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Project Question: Blowing bottletops:kaing music with glass bottles. My daughter will learn how the pitch of a note depends on the length of a column. I have a question about how what kind of data she should collect.
Project Due Date: January 30, 2013
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Blowing bottletops: making music with s bottles

Post by rachelet »

What kind of data chart can be used when experimenting with making music in glass bottletops? We are trying to determine how the frequency of a note produced is related to the length of a column.
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theborg
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Project Question: "To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty and leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of anything." - Sir Isaac Newton
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Re: Blowing bottletops: making music with s bottles

Post by theborg »

rachelet,

Welcome to Science Buddies and thank you for the question. If you have a way to accurately measure the frequency of the note then I would suggest plotting the data on a graph with the length of the bottle neck along the x-axis vs. frequency along the y-axis to show the relationship between the two.
Hope this helps.

theborg
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