Learning Goal
Speed of Sound, Frequency, and Wavelength
Teacher tools for this standard
Lesson Plan · Guided Notes · Exit Ticket · Re-teach · Homework
Teacher tools for this standard
Lesson Plan · Guided Notes · Exit Ticket · Re-teach · Homework
- Lesson Plan →Objectives, pacing and practice, built from this lesson's brief.
- Guided Notes →One page your students fill in and keep.
- Exit Ticket →Three items at the end of class. No student accounts.
- Re-teach →After an exit ticket: who missed what, and what to do tomorrow.
- Homework →Assign practice; it grades itself.
"Sound is a disturbance of matter that is transmitted from its source outward in the form of longitudinal waves."
"The relationship of the speed of sound *v*, its frequency *f*, and its wavelength $\lambda$ is given by $v = f\lambda$, which is the same relationship given for all waves."
"In a given medium at a specific temperature (or density), the speed of sound *v* is the same for all frequencies and wavelengths."
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"Sound is a disturbance of matter that is transmitted from its source outward in the form of longitudinal waves."
"The relationship of the speed of sound v, its frequency f, and its wavelength $\lambda$ is given by $v = f\lambda$, which is the same relationship given for all waves."
"In a given medium at a specific temperature (or density), the speed of sound v is the same for all frequencies and wavelengths."
What you'll learn
- Relate the characteristics of waves to the properties of sound waves
- Describe sound as a longitudinal wave of compressions and rarefactions that requires a medium
- Describe the speed of sound and explain how it changes with the medium and with temperature
- Apply the relationship v = fλ to relate the speed, frequency, and wavelength of a sound wave
- Explain why frequency stays fixed but wavelength changes when sound crosses into a new medium
Slides
Step through the lesson, or watch it as a narrated video
Slides
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