compression waves

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:21:36 +0100


Ron Nossaman wrote:

> >All LM frequencies are determined by the speaking length.  Unless  just about
> >everything I have run into on the subject is somehow wrong or doesnt bear on
> >pianostrings, which given Conklins work seems highly unlikely.
>
> Which is contrary to Stephen's assertion, which is why I verified it for
> myself. First things first.
>
> >But this fact is
> >apparently independant of what level of amplitude of these gets past the
> >termination points.
>
> Apparent how? That's what we're looking for, isn't it?

Well... because everywhere I run into this experiment the results are the same.
The longitudinal frequency is determined by the speaking length, and the
frequencies propagate unhindered through the whole length of the medium. I have
found this example in about 15 different university physics websites so far.



>
> Ron N



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