[TheForge] Re: triangle bells/rebar

[Mike Linn]

Maybe this site will help...

http://home.fuse.net/engineering/Chimes.htm

mike



At 01:04 AM 9/17/2004, you wrote:

>But I have a vague recollection from high school physics that tubes
>have weird vibration modes and harmonics.  Maybe I have to know
>exactly where the nodal point(s) of the vibration are.
>
>Say, maybe you could analyze the triangle gongs to determine where the
>least-vibrating nodal point(s) is(are).  Um, lessee: magnetize one
>just enough so that iron powder just barely kinda sorta sticks to
>it. Very light coat of white paint.  Iron powder all over.  Ring it
>and see where the iron powder falls off.  Those place are vibrating,
>aren't nodes and shouldn't be used to suspend it.  Or something like
>that...
>
>- Mike
>
>--
>Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.


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