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Making Waves

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  1. How to produce longitudinal and transverse waves on a slinky.
  2. How the speed of a wave in a string depends upon the tension of the string.
  3. How two or more waves can combine according to the principle of superposition.
  4. What standing waves are and how they are produced.
  5. How sound waves are produced.
  6. What determines the pitch, loudness, and quality of a sound.
  7. How musical scales are developed.