The sound of music: Determining Young's modulus using a guitar string

Freek Pols*

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Abstract

When a new topic is introduced in the curriculum, teachers seek various ways to teach students the related concepts. For the novel topic 'materials' in the revised Dutch curriculum, I developed an experiment in which students determine Young's modulus using a guitar string. The experiment not only covers several concepts related to 'materials' it also provides a clear link to the physics of music and illustrates to students, aged 16, why the topic 'materials' could be of interest.

Original languageEnglish
Article number035027
JournalPhysics Education
Volume56
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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