Below is a list of educational resources including animations and explanations of acoustical phenomena.

Introduction to Aeroacoustics, A Short Course

Slides from a short course offered at UT Austin during September 2018 by Professor Christophe Schram from the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Belgium.

Homemade Reproduction of Edison’s Tinfoil Phonograph

Mechanical drawings of homemade Tinfoil Phonograph available for download. -photo credit: Jason Sagers

Learn more about Thomas Edison’s Tinfoil Phonograph, and how to make your own!

Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR)

Animated demonstration of acoustic longitudinal waves. -photo credit ISVR

Teaching material on waves and acoustics with animated demos created by C. Maury, M. C. M. Wright and P. A. Nelson at ISVR (Institute of Sound and Vibration Research), University of Southampton

Acoustics and Vibration Animations Penn State

Animated demonstration of the Doppler Effect. -photo credit: Dr. Dan Russell Penn State University

Visit Professor Russell’s website to view animations illustrating acoustics and vibration

How Speakers Make Sound

Animated demonstrations of how speakers create sound. -photo credit: animagraffs.com

Animation and in-depth description on the mechanics of a loudspeaker

PHYSCLIPS, School of Physics, Sydney Australia UNSW

Animation of vocal sound production. -photo credit: PHYSCLIPS

The School of Physics in Sydney Australia provides animations to demonstrate acoustical phenomena on their website

National Museum of American History: Acoustics Instruments from the Smithsonian Videos

Historic instrument to demonstrate wave propagation. -photo credit: Smithsonian National Museum of American History

Steven Turner of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History presents acoustical instruments from the Smithsonian Scientific Instrument Collection