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Breaking Glass with Sound

Breaking Glass with Sound

This video from MIT TechTV demonstrates how to break a glass using sound. The demonstrator determines the resonant frequency of the glass and plays a tone of that frequency with a function generator. The video page has a description of the phenomenon beneath the video.

Keywords:
Bars, Instruments, Resonance in Plates, NSDL, Sound, Oscillations & Waves, Wave Analysis and Synthesis, Physics, Loudspeakers, Acoustics, General, Solids, Resonance, Sound Reproduction, Function Generator, Breaking Glass
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Material Type:
Simulation
Date Added to MERLOT:
July 27, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:
August 30, 2017
Author:
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Submitter:
Barbra Bied Sperling
Hispanic Serving Institution
Primary Audience:
High School, College General Ed
Technical Format:
Video
Mobile Compatibility:
Not specified at this time
Language:
English
Cost Involved:
No
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No
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