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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. Melde's experiment - Wikipedia

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    In the experiment, mechanical waves traveled in opposite directions form immobile points, called nodes. These waves were called standing waves by Melde since the position of the nodes and loops (points where the cord vibrated) stayed static. Standing waves were first discovered by Franz Melde, who coined the term "standing wave" around 1860.

  5. 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 ...

  6. String vibration - Wikipedia

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    Vibration, standing waves in a string. The fundamental and the first 5 overtones in the harmonic series. A vibration in a string is a wave. Resonance causes a vibrating string to produce a sound with constant frequency, i.e. constant pitch. If the length or tension of the string is correctly adjusted, the sound produced is a musical tone.

  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. 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 ...

  9. Crest and trough - Wikipedia

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    Crest and trough in a wave. A Crest point on a wave is the highest point of the wave. A crest is a point on a surface wave where the displacement of the medium is at a maximum. A trough is the opposite of a crest, so the minimum or lowest point of the wave.