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Integrated Coordinated Science for the 21st Century

+ Chapter 4
Let Us Entertain You
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Physics To Go
  1. a-c) See Steps 11 and 12 (a) and answers above.
  2. a) You feel vibration in your chest.
    b) The vibration at a rock concert is different, because its frequency is so much lower than the frequency of the sound coming from the speaker in the activity.
  3. Note: Students will need to know that the pin near the dot on the 555 chip is pin #1. Other pins are numbered proceeding counterclockwise around the chip, as shown in the drawing in the Background Information section.
  4. The circuit drawing shows one possible design. Each capacitor corresponds to a certain note. Closing the switch for a capacitor plays its note. See below.
  5. Students may search the Internet for price information.