We’ve already looked at standing wave patterns that are created when a reflected wave interferes with an incoming wave. It looks like the wave is fluctuating in place, when really it’s just an optical illusion of two waves interfering with each other. The point is, this effect are created at specific frequencies called harmonics, and now it’s time to learn about vibrational modes using a really cool experiment by Ernst Chladni.
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