After you’ve completed this experiment, you can try making your own sound-to-light transformer as shown below. Using the properties of sound waves, we’ll be able to actually see sound waves when we aim a flashlight at a drum head and pick up the waves on a nearby wall.


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2 Responses to “Seeing Sound Waves using Light”

  1. Oh no! I just fixed this last week and it came back again. Sorry – let me update it again.

  2. galinab2001 says:

    Hi. the video here doesn’t seem for the same project ?