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  2. Room modes - Wikipedia

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    The nodes and antinodes of these standing waves result in the loudness of the particular resonant frequency being different at different locations of the room. These standing waves can be considered a temporary storage of acoustic energy as they take a finite time to build up and a finite time to dissipate once the sound energy source has been ...

  3. Node (physics) - Wikipedia

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    A standing wave. The red dots are the wave nodes. A node is a point along a standing wave where the wave has minimum amplitude. For instance, in a vibrating guitar string, the ends of the string are nodes. By changing the position of the end node through frets, the guitarist changes the effective length of the vibrating string and thereby the ...

  4. Standing wave - Wikipedia

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    In this case, both ends will be pressure anti-nodes or equivalently both ends will be displacement nodes. This example is analogous to the case where both ends are open, except the standing wave pattern has a π ⁄ 2 phase shift along the x-direction to shift the location of the nodes and anti-nodes. For example, the longest wavelength that ...

  5. Amphidromic point - Wikipedia

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    The points at which the two waves amplify each other are known as antinodes and the points at which the two waves cancel each other out are known as nodes. Figure 2 shows a 1 ⁄ 4 λ resonator. The first node is located at 1 ⁄ 4 λ of the total wave, followed by the next node reoccurring 1 ⁄ 2 λ farther at 3 ⁄ 4 λ.

  6. Harmonic series (music) - Wikipedia

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    [6] [failed verification] Similar arguments apply to vibrating air columns in wind instruments (for example, "the French horn was originally a valveless instrument that could play only the notes of the harmonic series" [7]), although these are complicated by having the possibility of anti-nodes (that is, the air column is closed at one end and ...

  7. Vibrations of a circular membrane - Wikipedia

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    Consider an open disk of radius centered at the origin, which will represent the "still" drum head shape. At any time , the height of the drum head shape at a point (,) in measured from the "still" drum head shape will be denoted by (,,), which can take both positive and negative values.

  8. Windows 10 editions - Wikipedia

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    At the time of launch, Microsoft deemed Windows 7 (with Service Pack 1) and Windows 8.1 users eligible to upgrade to Windows 10 free of charge, so long as the upgrade took place within one year of Windows 10's initial release date. Windows RT and the respective Enterprise editions of Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 were excluded from this offer.

  9. Rubens tube - Wikipedia

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    A Rubens tube, also known as a standing wave flame tube, or simply flame tube, is a physics apparatus for demonstrating acoustic standing waves in a tube. Invented by German physicist Heinrich Rubens in 1905, it graphically shows the relationship between sound waves and sound pressure , as a primitive oscilloscope .