[time-nuts] Whispering Gallery-Mode....??
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Thu Apr 24 18:31:27 UTC 2008
> You start as low as go can and sweep slowly upwards until you suddenly
> hit a resonance of quite startling intensity.
Neat. Thanks.
The Exploratorium has a linear version. It's an amazing toy. (They call it
an exhibit.)
It's a hollow tube, 3m dia, 20m tall. Rather than sweep the frequency, they
have a xylophone tuned to several resonant frequencies.
It's one of these columns:
http://www.isle.org/~sbay/images/exploratorium.jpg
Good description:
http://www.exo.net/~pauld/summer_institute/summer_day11sound/sound_column.ht
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