Waves and Oscillations Demos

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Oscillations Wave Motion Acoustics

Resonance & Music

Click on the following titles to view a picture and description of each demo.

Oscillations

• 4:1 Pendula
• Bouncing Ball - Chaos
• Bowling Ball Pendulum
• Coupled Harmonic Oscillators---we could use an improved version of this!
• Damped Driven Harmonic Oscillator
• Different Mass Pendula
• Foucault Pendulum
• Mass on a Spring
• Physical Pendulum
• Simple Pendulum
• Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
• Torsion Pendulum
• Wilberforce Pendulum

Wave Motion

• Ames Tube
• Beat Speakers
• Beats in Tuning Forks
• Coupled Speaker and Tuning Fork
• Doorbell in a Vacuum
• Doppler Cannon--redo description with new device
• Doppler Tuning Forks
• Phase Interference
• Quincke’s Interference Tube for Sound
• Rubber Rope
• Slinky on Table
• Standing Waves on a Spring
• Standing Waves on a String
• Suspended Slinky
• Sympathetic Resonance
• Transverse Wave Generator
• Interference of Sound
• PASCO Mechanical Wave Motion
• Group velocity transparencies

Acoustics & Sound

• Digital Sound Level Meter
• Frequency Range of the Human Ear
• Talking tapes (ridged tapes make cup "talk" when scraped)

Resonance & Music

• Chladni Plates
• Slide Whistle
• Boomwhackers (musical tubes you strike)
• Musical Goblet
• Penny Whistle
• Shattering Goblet
• Sonometer
• Standing Wave Sound Tube
• Tuning Fork and a Cup of Water
• Tuning Fork in Strobe Light
• Vertical Resonance Tube
• Musical Illustration and Paradoxes CD
• Resonance Strips
• Resonance Tube

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