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

Freek Pols

doi:10.1088/1361-6552/abef07

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

Freek Pols^*

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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 language	English
Article number	035027
Journal	Physics Education
Volume	56
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6552/abef07
Publication status	Published - 2021

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