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Oscillations / Acoustics
Support Equipment
3 - 00.00 - Support Equipment
Oscillations
Pendula
3A10.10 - Simple Pendulum
3A10.14 - 4 to 1 Pendulums
3A10.21 - Metronome
3A10.30 - Torsion Pendulum
3A10.40 - Variaible "g" Pendulum
Physical Pendula
3A15.10 - Physical Pendulum - Smart Phone
3A15.20 - Physical Pendula
3A15.40 - Pendula - Arc vs. Ring
3A15.50 - Center of Percussion - Baseball Bat
3A15.70 - Kater's Pendula
Springs and Oscillators
3A20.10 - Simple Harmonic Motion - Mass on Spring
3A20.15 - Mass on a Spring - 1 to 4 Masses
3A20.30 - Simple Harmonic Motion - Air Track & Hoop Springs
3A20.35 - Air Cart Masses and Springs - Air Track & 2 Springs
3A20.60 - Simple Harmonic Motion - Ball and Dish
3A20.75 - Oscillating Candle
Simple Harmonic Motion
3A40.10 - SHM and Rotational Motion - Spring and Mass
3A40.21 - SHM and Rotational Motion - Pendulum
3A40.25 - Ball on a Track vs. Pendulum
3A40.35 - SHM and Rotational Motion - Video
Damped Oscillators
3A50.10 - Simple Harmonic Motion - Damped Mass on Spring
3A50.15 - Inclined Air Track - Damped Glider
3A50.40 - Double Spring Damped Air Glider
3A50.44 - Damped Pendulum
Driven Mechanical Resonance
3A60.10 - Tacoma Narrows Bridge
3A60.30 - Barton's Pendula
3A60.40 - Driven Resonance - Pasco Oscillator and Rotating Mass on a Spring
3A60.50 - Resonance Gyro - Frahm, Resonance Reeds, and Loops
Coupled Oscillations
3A70.10 - Wilberforce Pendulum
3A70.15 - Swinging Mass on a Spring
3A70.17 - Coupled Oscillators - Pendulum and Mass-Spring Oscillator
3A70.20 - Coupled Pendulum
3A70.23 - Synchronizing Metronomes
3A70.36 - Simple Double Pendulum
3A70.40 - Inverted Coupled Pendulum
3A70.45 - Coupled Resonance - Springs
3A70.50 - Oscillating Magnets
Normal Modes
3A75.10 - Coupled Oscillations - Air Track
3A75.40 - Bifilar Pendulum
Lissajous Figures
3A80.10 - Sand Pendulum
3A80.20 - Lissajous Figures - Oscilloscope
3A80.40/9C40.60 - Lissajous Figures - Laser and 3 Mirrors
3A80.43 - Lissajous Figures - Harmonograph
Non-Linear Systems
3A95.10 - Relaxation Oscillators
3A95.22 - Compound Pendulum
3A95.50 - Chaos Pendula - Chaos Toys
3A95.50b - Revolution
3A95.51 - Chaos Motor
3A95.55 - Change of a Diode
3A95.57 - Space Circles
3A95.58 - Zeeman Catastrophe Machine
3A95.59 - Belousov - Zhabotinsky Reactions
3A95.63 - Hula Hoop
3A95.67 - Lava Lamp
3A95.70 - Variable Length Pendulum - Swing - Pump a Swing
3A95.85 - Firehose Instability
Wave Motion
Transverse Pulses and Wave
3B10.10 - Wave Demo - Spring on Wall and Rope
3B10.20 - Wave Demo - Slinky
3B10.25 - Inertia of Motion - Standing Pulse - Chain
3B10.31 - Straw Wave Machine
3B10.60 - Standing Waves - Water Waves
3B10.75 - Pendulum Waves
3B10.77 - Aliasing
3B10.85 - Non - Recurrent Wave Fronts
Longitudinal Pulses and Waves
3B20.10 - Hanging Slinky
3B20.20 - Waves - Air Track or Rod
3B20.30 - Waves - Longitudinal Waves - PASCO model
3B20.70 - Crova's Disc
Standing Waves
3B22.10 - Standing Waves in a String - Hanging Motor
3B22.11 - Standing Waves in a String - Melde's Experiment
3B22.12 - Standing Waves in a String - Electrically Driven Tuning Fork
3B22.14 - Standing Waves in a Wire
3B22.30 - Wave Demo - Wave Machines
3B22.40 - Standing Waves in a Rod
3B22.50 - Slinky Standing Waves
3B22.51 - Standing Pulses in a Spring
3B22.70 - Standing Waves - Soap Film Oscillations
3B22.90 - Wave Demo - Overhead Wave Model
Impedance and Dispersion
3B25.10 - Impedance Matching - Wave Machines
3B25.55 - Spring Horn Toy - Space Phone
3B25.67 - Culvert Whistlers
Compound Waves
3B27.21 - Wave Addition Models
Wave Properties of Sound
3B30.01 - Ultrasonic Levitator
3B30.10 - Speed of Sound in Air
3B30.30 - Bell in a Vacuum
3B30.40 - Speaker and Candle Flame
3B30.45 - Trumpet and Bubbles
3B30.50 - Sound in Helium and CO2
3B30.52 - Speed of Sound in Water / Ultrasonic
3B30.61 - Speed of Sound in a Rod
3B30.65 - Music Box
3B30.70 - Soundboard
Phase and Group Velocity
3B33.20 - Group and Phase Velocity
Reflection and Refraction (Sound)
3B35.10 - Gas Lens
3B35.30 - Parabolic Reflector and Sound Source
3B35.37 - Plane Reflectors - Equal Angles
3B35.39 - Curved Reflectors - Whispering Gallery
Transfer of Energy in Waves
3B39.20 - Frequency of Sound Waves - Dominoes
3B39.30 - Big Ben - Coat Hanger on a String
Doppler Effect
3B40.10 - Doppler Effect - Buzzer and String
3B40.25 - Doppler Effect - Rotator App.
3B40.30 - Doppler Effect - Microwave Beats
Shock Waves
3B45.05 - Doppler Effect and Shock Waves - Overhead Projector Plates
3B45.13 - Shock Wave Fronts - Hydraulic Jump
3B45.30 - Solitons
3B45.35 - Shock Wave Fronts
3B45.50 - Shock Wave Fronts - Supersonic Jump
3B45.60 - Shock Wave Fronts - Supersonic Jet & Volcanoes
3B45.61 - Bull Whip and Towel
3B45.75 - Shock Wave Fronts - Cymbal and Flash Unit
Interference and Diffraction
3B50.20 - Ripple Tank
3B50.40 - Moiré Transparencies
Interference and Diffraction of Sound
3B55.10 - Interference of Sound Waves - Rotating Platform, LED
3B55.30 - Speaker and Baffle
3B55.32 - Interference of Speakers
3B55.40 - Interference - Quincke's Tube or Trombone
3B55.55 - Diffraction Around an Obstacle - Through A Fan
Beats
3B60.10 - Beats - Tuning Fork
3B60.13 - Beats - Organ Pipes
3B60.20 - Beats - Oscilloscope
Coupled Resonators
3B70.10 - Resonance in Solids Demo - Tuning Fork Resonance
3B70.30 - Resonance of Strings
Acoustics
The Ear
3C10.10 - Model of the Human Ear
3C10.15 - Ear Drum Model
3C10.20 - Binaural Hearing
3C10.21 - Stethoscope
Pitch
3C20.05 - Infrasound
3C20.10 - Range of Hearing for the Human Ear
3C20.15 - Galton's Whistle
3C20.16 - Ultrasonic Waves - Suspended Rods , Ultrasound
3C20.17 - Quartz Oscillators - Quartz Tuning Forks & Watches
3C20.20 - Zip Strips
3C20.21 - Grooves on a Record - Model
3C20.23 - Grooves on a Record - LP
3C20.25 - Musical Pop Bottles
3C20.30 - Siren Disk - Seebeck Siren
3C20.35 - Sirens
3C20.40 - Savart's Wheel - Musical Saws
3C20.43 - Coin in a Balloon
3C20.60 - Increasing Pitch - Euler's Disk, Magnets & Glass Bottles, LIGO Ring Down
Intensity and Attenuation
3C30.20 - Decibels Meter & Speaker
Architectural Acoustics
3C40.10 - Concert Hall Acoustics
Wave Analysis and Synthesis
3C50.10 - Fourier Synthesis of Waves - Pasco
3C50.40 - Resonance - Electromagnetically Driven Strings
3C50.55 - Noise Generator and Filters
3C50.60 - 60 Cycle Hum - Electromagnetic Pickup
3C50.65 - Twisted Pair
3C50.75 - Noise and Measurements
3C50.80 - Spectrum Analysis
Music Perception and the Voice
3C55.25 - Missing Fundamental
3C55.30 - Heterodyne Wave
3C55.31 - Combination Tones
3C55.40 - Chords
3C55.51 - Musical Scales
3C55.65 - Tone Quality and Evaluating Musical Instruments
3C55.72 - Tuning Forks - Tone Quality
3C55.80 - Vocal Formants
3C55.84 - Polyphonic Overtone Singing
3C55.85 - Acoustical Filters - Stewart Filters
3C55.88 - Sound Sink-Sound Sucker
3C55.90 - Science of Sound - Tapes and Records
Instruments
Resonance in Strings
3D20.10 - Sonometer
3D20.20 - Sonometer on Oscilloscope
3D20.60 - Rubber Band Harp
Stringed Instruments
3D22.10 - Violin
3D22.25 - Cup Telephone
3D22.30 - Guitar
3D22.32 - Guitar - Fretted String Instruments
3D22.40 - Piano
Resonance Cavities
3D30.10 - Resonance Tubes - Water Column
3D30.14 - Open Tube Resonance - Ambient Noise Resonators
3D30.15 - Standing Waves in a Tube
3D30.16 - Resonance Tubes - Sliding Piston
3D30.17 - Box and Bottle Modes
3D30.21 - Resonance Horns - Conical Pipes
3D30.32 - Cylindrical Pipes
3D30.35 - Freq Tube
3D30.40 - Helmholtz Resonator
3D30.50 - Ruben's Tube
3D30.60 - Kundt's Tube
3D30.70 - Rijke Tube - Hoot Tubes with Mounted Metal Screens
3D30.71 - Hoot Tube
3D30.75 - Knipp Tube
3D30.77 - Hot Chocolate Effect
Air Column Instruments
3D32.10 - Flute
3D32.14 - Clarinet - Saxophone - Recorder - Tinwhistle
3D32.15 - Variable Pitch Whistles - Stadium Horn - Train Whistles - Relaxation Oscillators
3D32.18 - Soda Straw Oboe
3D32.22 - Edge Tone Generator
3D32.25 - Organ Pipes and Whistles
3D32.30 - Harmonica or Melodica
3D32.35 - Resonance in Cavities - Horn
3D32.40 - Trumpet / Cornet
3D32.41 - Baritone / Euphonium
3D32.43 - Trombone
3D32.45 - PVC Instruments - Palm Pipes and Boomwhackers
Resonance in Plates, Bars, Solids
3D40.10 - Justemp Bars - Xylophone
3D40.14 - Jaw Harp, Mouth Harp, or Jew's Harp
3D40.15 - Musical Sticks
3D40.18 - Musical Ruler - Musical Strips
3D40.19 - Thumb Piano
3D40.19-2 - Musical Saw
3D40.20 - Singing Rods
3D40.23 - Waterphone
3D40.25 - Regenerative Feedback
3D40.30 - Chladni Plates
3D40.34 - Gongs - Cymbals
3D40.40 - Drums
3D40.45 - Dancing Soap Bubbles
3D40.50 - Musical Goblets or Bowl
3D40.51 - Spouting Bowl
3D40.55 - Shattering Beaker
3D40.56 - Low Frequency Glass Breaker
3D40.58 - Bells - Cow Bells
3D40.60 - Chimes/Triangle
3D40.65 - Bull-Roarer
Tuning Forks
3D46.15 - Tuning Forks - Various
3D46.16 - Tuning Forks on Oscilloscope
3D46.30 - Tuning Fork Motion
3D46.90 - Electronically Driven Tuning Fork
Electronic Instruments
3D50.10 - Keyboards - Piano and Organ
3D50.15 - Synthesizer
3D50.20 - Online Tone Generators
3D50.30 - Theremin
3D50.50 / 3E80.70 - Beamz Player
Sound Reproduction
Loudspeakers
3E20.10 - Loudspeakers
3E20.15 - Loudspeaker Resonance
3E20.20 - Singing Tesla Coil - Plasma Speaker
3E20.25 - Tooth Toons - Human Loudspeaker
3E20.30 - The Sound Color Organ
3E20.35 - High - Mid - Low Pass Filter/Crossover
3E20.50 - Noise Cancellation
Microphones
3E30.10 - Microphone Construction
3E30.20 - Reciprocity - Speaker as a Microphone / Microphone as a Speaker
Amplifiers
3E40.00 - Amplifier
3E50.00 - Phonograph - Turntable
Recorders
3E60.00 - Tape deck
3E70.00 - CD Boom Box
Digital Systems
3E80.05 - CD Reading System
3E80.10 - Digital Reproduction CD with Holes
3E80.50 - Digital Compression
3E80.70 / 3D50.30 - Beamz Player
9A20.20 - CD Player