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Sound and Noise: Proposal for an Interdisciplinary Learning Path

Physics Education 2016-01-08 v1

Abstract

A learning path is proposed starting from the characterization of a sound wave, showing how human beings emit articulate sounds in the language, introducing psychoacoustics, i.e. how the sound interacts with ears and it is transduced into an electrical signal for transmission to the brain. What is perceived as noise is presented and the concept is extended to physical measurements. The interdisciplinary teaching process is focused on active learning through activities at school and outside performed with an open source software which allows to record sounds and analyze spectral components.

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@article{arxiv.1403.0482,
  title  = {Sound and Noise: Proposal for an Interdisciplinary Learning Path},
  author = {Vera Montalbano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.0482},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5 pages, 5 figures, presented at the 18th edition of the Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning Workshop MPTL18, 11th-13th September 2013, Madrid, Spain

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