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Have you ever blown across a bottle's top and made a pleasant, resonant sound? If so, have you wondered how that note is made exactly? The exact note you hear depends on the resonant frequency of the air in the bottle. Musical instruments like ocarinas operate based on a similar principle. In this science activity, you will use bottles to investigate how the volume of the air in the bottle affects the pitch of the note that it makes.
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Forum: Grades 9-12: Life, Earth, and Social Sciences
Musical taste?
Musical taste?
I wanted to know if there is any kind of science behind musical taste. Is there a reason why people like certain types of music over other kinds of music? An example would be someone who enjoys listening to Heavy Metal but finds Classical music boring. Is there any kind of scientific way to explain why?
Re: Musical taste?
Hi Joshua,
This is a very intriguing question, and one that does have scientific backing. A quick Google search allowed me to find a few…
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Forum: Grades 6-8: Life, Earth, and Social Sciences
Music~Memory
Music~Memory
I need help.
Im doing my Science Fair Project on different genres affecting the memorization of random objects.
I need an experts opinion on this subject.
Thanks,
Carley
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Hi Carley,
Can you give us some more detailed information about your project and question? My guess is that we don't have an expert in this exact area, but we can help you generally.
You should also find some research papers that have done similar experiments to your project…
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Music has many mathematical elements in it: rhythm, pitch, scale, frequency, interval, and ratio. There are many ways to turn these elements into a science fair project. You can investigate how the scale is based upon a special type of number sequence called a Harmonic Series. Another scale used by Bach, called the "Well-Tempered-Scale" or the "Equal-Tempered-Scale", is based upon a series. How are these mathematical series and ratios related to notes, chords, intervals, and octaves? You can…
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I was on my way to the car one morning last week, and as I rounded the car to open the door, I noticed the repetitive trill of a bird. It was loud, persistent, and close. Stopping to listen, I swiveled around, searching the early morning street. There it was, a house finch perched atop a street light, its red throat catching the gleam of the sun breaking through the trees to the east.
There are other birds in my area I've stopped to listen to in recent years. Some of them have become…
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Have you ever seen a great movie and then rushed out and bought its soundtrack? Did the soundtrack bring back the thrill of an action chase? Or the sadness one of the movie's characters felt? Music is a big part of the movie experience. It intensifies the emotions in scenes so that you do not just jump when that hairy spider comes around the corner, you scream! In this music science fair project, you will find out if happy, sad, scary, and action scenes in movies use music with the same…
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Forum: Grades 6-8: Physical Science
rfid music
rfid music
hello sir/ma'am
im working on the Sound like Rfid project
actually the COM port allows me to access only one application at a time..
example:
if i configure the putty or hyper terminal then i can read the tag data on the putty/hyperterminal console but when i try and run the python code ,then it shows me an error
..it says "access denied'
later if i first run the python code, the code runs without error .. but the configure for putty/hyperterminl doesnt happen.. it…
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Forum: Grades 9-12: Life, Earth, and Social Sciences
music versus memory
music versus memory
hi my name is sabrina and i have a science project that is due sometime in May. i am a 9th grader. i have a science project in mind though. i want to know firsthand if music is an appropriate or relateable topic for a science project.
this is my science project idea:
i want to research if people can function better or worse with music or without it, and how music affects their performance.
i do not have access to any instrument to actually do a…
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Forum: Grades 9-12: Life, Earth, and Social Sciences
Music & Memory
Music & Memory
I'm planning to make a project about ''the effect of listening to music while trying to memorize words.''
I think that I'll contrast the effects of different styles of music like classical and metal to see if classical helps you memorize more words and metal makes it harder.
For now, I'm just starting to work on my research on exactly how am I going to do this.
Before I begin, I would like to ask some questions:
1. Do you have any advice on how should I…
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[Note: The following list of projects appeared in the May 2010 Science Buddies Newsletter. To view the full newsletter, which was all about the science of music, click here. Parents, you'll find great at-home music science projects in that issue as well!]
Sometimes, rolling up your sleeves and recreating the wheel really is the best way to understand from the inside out what is happening, how something works, and what the science at hand really means. Patience, ingenuity, and a DIY…
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