Energetic Musical Instruments
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Students learn to apply the principles and concepts associated with energy and the transfer of energy in an engineering context by designing and making musical instruments. They choose from a variety of provided supplies to make instruments capable of producing three different tones. After completing their designs, students explain the energy transfer mechanism in detail and describe how they could make their instruments better.
Engineers must understand energy transfer to design instruments that produce beautiful music. The understanding of energy transfer also applies to the design of all kinds of other products.
After this activity, students should be able to:
- Design a device that utilizes physical principles of energy transfer.
- Give an example of an energy transfer process within a system.