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What’s going on: Transforming vibrating air molecules into patterns you can see

What’s the science? This activity transforms the vibrating air molecules from your voice into Lissajous patterns, allowing you to visualize harmonic motions and resonant vibration modes.

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  • starky ultimate style avatar for user Andrea
    Lets suppose I add to lasers and two mirrores, one of the lasers points to the mirror that is on the upper side of the membrane and the other one is on the down side of the membrande, is the pattern going to be the same?
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