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TryEngineering: Engineered Music is supplemented by The Physics of Music and Musical Instruments
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A cost-free online textbook that integrates the physics of waves with sound, music, and musical instruments. Designed for teacher content support or for use in the high school physics classroom.


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TryEngineering: Engineered Music is supplemented by Standing Waves and Musical Instruments
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This tutorial for teachers explains how various musical instruments generate standing waves to produce tones with a particular pitch. Includes animations of single wave reflection and standing waves to assist with visualization.



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