Speed of Sound lab

Thursday October 10/07


Well today in physics we did a lab. It was on The Speed Of Sound. For this lab we had 2 graduated cylinders, one filled with hot water and one filled with ice water. In each of the graduated cylinders there were glass tubes. We had to take a tunning fork, hit it on the bottom of our shoe or with a rubber hammer so it would make noise. Then hold it over the glass tube and slowly bring up the glass tube with the tunning fork. We had to measure the Loud Sound and the Quiet Sound with a meter stick. We then had to find the wavelength and the velocity of each. We had to answer some questions at the bottom of the page. Ms.k then gave us a handout worksheet "Grade 11 Physics: Unit 1.3 Sound".

Have a fun weekend =)
Mr. Lawrence can scribe for Monday's class because he broke Ms K's rubber hammer:((