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Scientific American: What happens when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier? 
  
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This site provides a description of breaking the sound barrier in terms of the propagation of sound waves. The site includes a striking image of the cloud generated around a…
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-happens-when-an-airc/
Faster than Sound 
  
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Publisher: Public Broadcasting Service
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NOVA's Faster than Sound is a short history of how Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1. It includes interviews of the key people involved, including audio recording…
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/barrier/
South Pole Foucault Pendulum 
  
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This webpage is an informal record of observations of the motion of a Foucault pendulum at the South Pole. Several photographs show the pendulum itself and steps in its construction,…
http://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/00s/southpolefoucault.html
Chaotic Pendulum 
  
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Publisher: Exploratorium
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This video is about the chaotic pendulum exhibit at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco. The pendulum has three connected double pendulums. When it is set into motion,…
https://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/chaotic-pendulum
Two Source Interference 
  
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Kansas State Physics Education Research Group and D. Zollman
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Try out double-slit interference on this site. You'll see elegant interference patterns and find out what happens as you change the wavelength, the source separation and the phase.
https://web.phys.ksu.edu/vqmorig/programs/java/makewave/olddouble/Slit.h...
Flame Tube (Ruben's Tube) 
  
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Publisher: Idaho State University
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This site shows and explains the setup of the Flame Tube or Ruben's Tube demonstration. It includes images of the apparatus and the technical details needed to run the demonstration.
http://www.physics.isu.edu/physdemos/waves/flamtube.htm
Hyperphysics: Electric Guitars 
  
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C. Nave
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This web page contains information about the physics behind electric guitars. It includes outlines of both the production of sound by the guitar strings and the magnetic pickups that…
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Music/eguit.html
The Invention of the Electric Guitar 
  
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Editor: M. Smith; Publisher: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History
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This Smithsonian online exhibit explores the history and development of the electric guitar. It includes information about the instrument designers and the musicians who influenced…
https://invention.si.edu/invention-electric-guitar
Ear Guitar 
  
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This web page provides instructions for building the classic experiment for communicating with two cups and a string, but the emphasis is on communicating by plucking the strings in…
https://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/ear_guitar.html
Music Acoustics: How does a guitar work? 
  
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This webpage provides an overview of the physics of guitars. The text explains how the properties of the strings affect the frequencies that they produce. Also, the text shows how…
http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/guitarintro.html
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