Fryeburg Academy Physics

A colleague pointed this article out to me today. In Honors Physics last week we did a lab to measure the speed of sound with a tuning fork, hollow plastic tube, and a graduated cylinder filled with water; this blog post suggests a way to measure the speed of sound while singing in the shower. Let me know if it works*.

I recommend the blog too; it’s written by a physics grad student, and is pretty entertaining. Add it to your RSS reader. Don’t know what one of those is? Try here.

*I will not be responsible for laughs or strange looks you may get while attempting this.