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Month: November 2002

Fall 2002: Throat Singing and You

Throat Singing and You Presented by Damon Jansen Newark Memorial High School Physics & Robotics Teacher dkjansen@yahoo.com 510-818-4396 Short description of sound spectrum analysis. Looking at throat singing. How to throat sing — starting with vowels. Spectrograms of other instruments. How to do spectrum analysis? –if you have probeware, get microphones for it –for Windows machines, Spectrogram works well: Demo Version; Free; limits time of usage Paid version: $25 http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/gram/gramdl.html –Macintosh: Audacity 1.0 (free) and Mac the Scope (free to try; $74 to buy) are both on www.zdnet.com –for more options: go to www.zdnet.com or www.cnet.com and search their “Downloads”…

Fall 2002 Meeting Notes

  Friday, November 1, 2002 Saturday, November 2, 2002Exploratorium/San Francisco State Local Host: Jim Lockhart lockhart@stars.sfsu.edu Friday Workshops (at the Exploratorium) “New Teacher Workshop”Paul Robinson, Lonnie Grimes, Dan Burns and Dean Bairdpresented this workshop to an appreciative group of about 20 new and veteran teachers. “Amusement Park Physics” Clarence Bakken presented this PTRA workshop to a group of approximately 12 teachers. Friday Evening Social at the Exploratorium 5:00 – 7:30 The Exploratorium was open for physics teachers and their families to enjoy from about 5:15 until the talks started at 7:30. NCNAAPT thanks PASCO Scientific for sponsoring the refreshments that…