Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Standing Wave Demonstration




With some duct tape, $2 worth of candy, and some skewer sticks from the local party store, you can make a real "sweet-looking" wave machine. Shake it at just the right frequency and you can get it to vibrate with one of its harmonic patterns. It's a demonstration that students will remember and the machine is probably just as effective as the $600 commercial version.

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