PIRA 3B22.00 STANDING WAVES

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3B22.00Standing Waves
3B22.10Melde's vibrating stringPIRA 200Drive one end of a string over a pulley to a mass with variable frequency SHM
3B22.10Melde's3B22.10A jigsaw drives a rope at variable speed.
3B22.10Melde'sSa-9A DC motor is driven at variable speeds to generate standing waves on an attached rope.
3B22.10Melde's18-7.1A 3 m rubber tube with a variable speed drive and high intensity strobe.
3B22.10Melde's18-5.1A string under tension is driven to show standing waves.
3B22.10Melde'sS-35Use a length of white clothesline and a mechanical vibrator to generate standing waves.
3B22.10three tensions standing wavesDisc 09-27Three strings driven by the same driver have weights of 0.9:2:8 to produce the first, second, and third harmonics.
3B22.11Melde's driverAJP 43(10),926Bend the clapper away from the magnet of a 110 V ac buzzer.
3B22.11Melde's driverAJP 33(10),856Use a dc to ac vibrator-converter for generating ac power from batteries to drive the string.
3B22.11driving mechanism for Melde'sAJP 33(4),340A quiet double solenoid driver for Melde's operates at line frequency.
3B22.11speaker driven stringAJP 50(10),910Couple a loudspeaker cone to a string for a variable driver. Use two drivers to show beats.
3B22.11Melde's driver for OH projectorAJP 50(12),1170A quiet electromagnetically driven string driver suitable for use on the overhead projector.
3B22.11Melde's with fluorescent lightAJP 36(1),63On the colors seen with fluorescent light illumination.
3B22.11hair cutter driver18-7.6A hair cutter powered with a variac is modified to drive a string.
3B22.11Melde'sS-2bA Melde's driver. Reference: AJP 20(5),310.
3B22.12Melde's - tuning forkSa-10A tuning fork drives a string into resonances with varied tension.
3B22.12Melde's - tuning forkS-36Vary the tension of yarn driven by an electrically driven tuning fork.
3B22.12tuning fork Melde'sS-2cAn electrically driven tuning fork sets up standing transverse waves in a string.
3B22.13piano wire18-7.5A motor driven, variable frequency oscillator gives transverse impulses to a stretched piano wire.
3B22.14electromagnetically excited wire18-5.5An electromagnet is placed at the center of a stretched wire and connected to a signal generator to produce several modes of oscillations.
3B22.14AC driven wire18-7.4The tension is changed on a wire carrying AC in the field of a magnet and the fundamental and various harmonics are shown.
3B22.14wire standing wavesS-37Use iron wire and an electromagnet or AC current and a magnet to generate standing waves in wire.
3B22.15three tensions standing wavesPIRA 1000
3B22.15rubber tube standing wavesDisc 09-28A long rubber tube driven by a variable speed motor.
3B22.16phase changes in Melde'sAJP 43(12),1112Show two positions of max amplitude, one red and one blue, with fluorescent lighting and a vibrator synchronous to the lamp flutter.
3B22.17mutiple Melde'sS-2e.1The same motor drives two horizontal strings and one vertical string of equal length. All strings are in resonance.
3B22.18AC heated stretched nichrome wire18-5.4Standing waves are produced by stretching nichrome wire and heating with AC.
3B22.21air driven rubber tube18-5.3Standing waves are produced in a stretched rubber tube by a jet of air.
3B22.22nice wave machineS-33A weighted rubber tube is hung horizontally from the ends of short pivoted and counterweighted bars. Friction adjustments at the pivots allow any amount of energy to be absorbed. When driven from one end, many wave properties may be shown.
3B22.25stroboscopic projection with wire18-5.11Waves in a wire are stroboscopically projected.
3B22.25projecting a standing wave on a wire18-5.10A rotating mirror arrangement projects the shape of a standing wave on a wire.
3B22.30Shive /Bell Labs standing wavesPIRA 500
3B22.30Bell Labs standing waves3B22.30Excite the Bell Labs machine at various rates to obtain standing waves with one, two, and three nodes.
3B22.30standing wavesDisc 09-26Drive the Shive wave machine by hand to produce standing waves.
3B22.40vertical vibrating barPIRA 1000
3B22.40vertical vibrating barAJP 48(9),786Vibrate a yardstick or meterstick by hand through the fundamental and first overtone. Due to the rule, the position of the node can be measured easily.
3B22.40transverse waves in a rod18-7.3Hold a long rod at the center or at an end and vibrate it at the natural frequency with the other hand. ALSO - chalk squeak and breaking.
3B22.41vertical steel bar Melde'sS-135A vertical steel bar is clamped vertically and driven mechanically through the first three harmonics.
3B22.45free boundary hanging tube18-5.9A support designed to excite a hanging tube while maintaining free boundary conditions.
3B22.50slinky standing wavesPIRA 1000
3B22.50slinky standing waves3B22.50
3B22.50slinky standing wavesDisc 09-25Drive a hanging slinky by hand to produce standing waves.
3B22.51hanging spring standing wavesAJP 55(7),666A solenoid drives a magnet attached to a hanging spring.
3B22.51hanging slinky standing wavesS-2e.2A motor oscillator drives a hanging slinky.
3B22.52driven jolly balance spring waves18-5.2A tuning fork drives a jolly balance spring to produce standing longitudinal waves. A lantern projector with a rotating disk slows the motion stroboscopically.
3B22.60longitudinal standing wavesPIRA 1000
3B22.60longitudinal standing wavesDisc 09-24Excite the Pasco longitudinal waves machine to get standing waves.
3B22.65magnetostrictive standing waves18-5.8A feedback circuit to a coil around a nickel rod drives magnetostrictive standing waves indicated by a ball bouncing at one end.
3B22.70soap film oscillationsPIRA 1000
3B22.70soap film standing waves18-5.7Large wire frames dipped in soap film are manipulated by hand to produce standing waves. Nice pictures.
3B22.75standing wavesS-105Use a sensitive flame to detect standing waves from a loudspeaker between two boards.
3B22.90crank slidePIRA 1000
3B22.90crank slide3B22.90Same as Sa-8.
3B22.90traveling and standing wave modelsSa-8A projection device that gives the appearance of waves traveling in opposite directions and the sum of the waves.
3B22.90crank wave modelS-25Wire helixes turned about their axes in a lantern projector appear as waves traveling in opposite directions. An additional bent wire shows the resulting standing wave.
3B22.99analog computer simulationAJP 44(3),284An analog computer used with a dual trace storage scope to demonstrate traveling and standing waves.

ReferenceDescription
M-1Sutton
Ma-1Freier & Anderson
M-1dHilton
8-2.8Meiners
1A12.01University of Minnesota Handbook
AJP 52(1),85American Journal of Physics
TPT 15(5),300The Physics Teacher
Disc 01-01The Video Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations

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