College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
3C20.40 - Savart's Wheel - Musical Saws
Place the musical saw blades into the rotator and tighten securely. Start the motor and hold a piece of stiff cardboard against the rotating teeth and hear a different pitch for each set of teeth.
Plug the electromagnetic pickup into the Aux. input of an amplifier. Place the 'saw cog' wheel into the rotator, start and bring the end of the pickup close to the teeth and listen to the pitch vs. speed of rotation.
- Norihiro Sugimoto ( Stray Cats ), "Let's make "24:27:30:32:36:40:45:48" and Play Music", TPT, Vol. 58, #4, April 2020, p. 280.
- Thomas B Greenslade Jr, "Apparatus Named After Our Academic Ancestors-II", TPT, Vol. 49, # 1, Jan. 2011, p. 28.
- Sc- 2: Freier and Anderson, A Demonstration Handbook for Physics.
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- George M. Hopkins, "Experiments with the Scientific Top", Experimental Science, p. 173.
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- Martin Gardner, "80, The Vibrating Card", Smart Science Tricks, p. 119.
- Guenter Schwarz, "Frequency and Pitch", AJP, Vol. 32, #2, Feb. 1964, p. xiv.
- Raymond Bruman, "Harmonic Series Wheel", Exploratorium Cookbook I, p. 66.1 - 66.9.
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