Bill Nye the Science Guy - Season 1 Episode 12 Sound
Listen up, scientists. Bill Nye is here to make some noise in the ""Sound"" episode. Your vocal cords do it. Speakers playing rock music do it. Even a school bell does it. They all vibrate; and that's how sound is made. Plucking a stretched rubber band makes the rubber band vibrate. Air molecules around the rubber band move, pushing other air molecules. As the rubber band continues to vibrate, it sends waves of sound through the air. It's a lot like the ripples you see when you drop a rock into a pond. You hear sound when rippling air pushes on tiny bones in your ears. Nerves in your ears send a message to your brain about the sound you're hearing. Different sounds make different patterns of waves with different distances between them. Plucking, banging, whispering, and yelling are all vibrations in air, yet they all sound very different. Sound vibrations can be thought of as waves moving through molecules. Low-pitched sounds have big gaps between waves, while high-pi
Year: 1998
Genre: Comedy, Documentary, Kids
Country: United States of America
Studio: PBS
Director: Bill Nye
Cast: Bill Nye, Rachel Glenn, Jennifer Lin, Amy Broder, Ethan Ferkiss
Crew: Darrel Suto (Writer), Erren Gottlieb (Writer), Michael Palleschi (Writer), Erren Gottlieb (Executive Producer), Kit Boss (Writer), Michael Gross (Writer)
First Air Date: Sep 10, 1993
Last Air date: Jun 20, 1998
Season: 5 Season
Episode: 100 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
IMDb: 7.21/10 by 76.00 users
Popularity: 27.934
Language: English