2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/136744In 2004, Tohoku University created a new introductory science experimental course for freshmen. The course is a compulsory subject for students in all natural science fields. The course is not designed for a professional education, but as a liberal education, in which students are trained to become familiar with nature and to discover natural laws for themselves. We present here one of 12 themes - "science and culture: vibration of string instrument and music", in which we expect students to study two aspects: 1) the universality of natural laws and 2) the variety of value judgments from the evidence.2 pages, to be published in the Journal of the Physics Education Society of Japan, presented at ICPE2006 (Tokyo)Physics EducationPopular PhysicsPhysics and SocietyScience-Based Comparative Culture: A New Theme of Experiment for Freshmen in Tohoku Universitytext