This activity involves a video demonstration of the effect of a sound's duration on its frequency. The video can be seen here, which will open the web site for the Science of Music from the Exploratorium in San Francisco. To watch the video, click on Experiment 2 (Pop Music). Watch the video as many times as you need to in order to understand. When you are done watching the video, answer the questions below.
1. The three people in the video are discussing the relationship between:
2. The man in the video explains that:
3. The man says that a "pop" that lasts 1/1000 of a second will have frequencies up to _______________cycles per second.
4. The man then says that "in a funny way, a pop is like a ______ ______." Type the missing words in the space below:
5. One of the women then refers to a sound that can be made with a piano, saying "you know how sometimes you __________ the piano __________ down."
What are the two missing words from this sentence? Type the first word here:
6. Type the second one here: