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University
and
high
school
physics
teachers
will
learn
about
ultrasonic
sound
waves,
resonances
and
dispersive
behavior
during
an
acoustics
education
workshop
this
week,
June
16-19,
at
Rose-Hulman
Institute
of
Technology.
The
workshop
is
dedicated
to
the
memory
of
Wilkison
W.
Meeks,
a
former
physics
professor
at
Rose-Hulman
who
specialized
in
acoustics,
conducted
acoustics
research
and
was
author
of
an
acoustics
textbook.
Partial
financial
support
for
the
workshop
comes
from
funds
provided
by
the
Meeks
family
for
the
encouragement
of
study
and
achievement
in
acoustics.
Leading
workshop
sessions
will
be
Michael
Moloney,
Rose-Hulman
physics
and
optical
engineering
professor
and
a
longtime
colleague
and
friend
of
Meeks.
Moloney
will
be
assisted
by
Dane
Sahlhoff,
a
sophomore
engineering
physics
major.
The
workshop
emphasizes
acoustics
experiments,
like
building
wind
chimes,
which
are
fairly
simple
to
organize
and
interpret.
Other
experiments
will
showcase
how
a
set
of
pvc
pipes
of
varying
diameter
can
have
the
same
resonant
frequency,
and
a
30-foot
length
of
suspended
music
wire
or
slinky
will
demonstrate
how
waves
travel
in a
dispersive
medium.
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