Sound Waves

Glasses Study Guide

1. What is the purpose of this experiment?

2. Can you predict what will happen when you hit any glass of water?

3. As you hit the different cups, what do you notice as a difference?

4. How is the difference related to sound waves?

5. What does this tell you about sound waves and how they act?

6. How does the amount of water in each cup affect the sound?

7. At the end of playing with this project, give some feed back to us.

a. Did you like the experiment?

b. Did you learn anything from it?