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    Published 10 May 2011, Updated 24 January 2016 Referencing Hub media
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    This animated video of a ripple moving out from a central source helps us visualise how sound waves radiate out in all directions from a vibrating source.

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      Modelling waves with slinkies

      In this activity, students model how sound travels by sending waves along two stretched plastic slinkies tied together. By the end of this activity, students should be able to: understand that ...

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      Measuring sound

      Sound is a pressure wave caused when something vibrates, making particles bump into each other and then apart. The particles vibrate back and forth in the direction that the wave travels but do ...

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