Two identical tuning forks mounted on resonance boxes are struck with rubber mallets to show they have identical tones. A small piece of putty is added to one tuning fork to alter it's frequency. When ...

Place the rubber mallet and tuning fork on the lectern with the open end of the resonance box facing the audience. Details of the tuning fork can't be seen in a large lecture hall, but the sound can ...

Third-graders at Jordak Elementary School did a science experiment on sound, according to a release from Cardinals Schools. The experiment showed the students the science of sound by using an aluminum ...

In his latest Atlantic piece, Wayne Curtis explores a new-agey question: can the vibrations of a tuning fork improve a cocktail? No matter how inventive a bartender may be when it comes to choosing ...

The Keefer Bar, located in Vancouver’s Chinatown, has the appearance of a postwar back-alley Asian apothecary-cum-opium-den. Behind the bar are jars of medicinal herbs—astragalus, magnolia bark, a ...

High school science teacher Sam Terfa wanted to demonstrate a fundamental physics principle: resonant frequency. To do so, he found the best singer at Minnehaha Academy and had him serenade a wine ...

IN an experiment performed in this laboratory on the determination of surface tensions of liquids by the method of ripples, a tuning fork, provided with a dipper and slits on the two prongs, was used ...