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Fun Projects for K-12 Students

1. How to make music using wind chime pipes

This project demonstrates how we can use the principle of mechanical engineering for making music. The students are given a set of wind chime pipes with different lengths. They can measure and record the frequencies of the wind chime pipes using a MATLAB GUI program. By finding the relationship between the pipe frequencies and the pipe frequencies using Excel, they can calculate the pipe lengths that are required to play the song "Mary had a little lamb". Download files for this project. The files are described as the following

1. Wind Chime.ppt: step-by-step instructions

2. Record.m: MATLAB program for measure the frequency of the wind pipe

3. five pipes.xls: excel files for finding the relationship between pipe frequency and pipe length.

4. Frequencies of music notes.pdf: a table lists the frequency of music notes

5. Mary had a little lamb.pdf: music notes

Video Demo (coming soon)

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