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Manufacturing Fresnel Lenses with Sound

I understand fresnel lenses are manufactured using CNC machines. I was wondering, if it would be possible to use sound to vibrate liquid silicon and then fast cool it into the standard form of a ...
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How to determine frequency components present in distorted signal, with the set of possible components already known?

I am trying to choose the best approach to digitally analyse a signal, which is a mix of an unknown number (but less than 16) fundamental signals at specific frequencies (e.g., sines). The goal is ...
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Frequency of a Tuning Fork

Question: Which of the following affect the frequency of a tuning fork? Tine stiffness Tine length The force with which it's struck Density of the surrounding air Temperature of the surrounding air ...
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Independence of frequency in sound waves?

Why does the frequency of sound wave depend only on the source? Why is the frequency and not any other "quality" independent of everything but the source? And that said, why is velocity and ...
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Sum and Difference Frequencies - Amplitude Modulation

I understand that while transmitting an envelope through a carrier wave to the receiver, an upper sideband and a lower sideband form adjacent to the carrier wave. The sidebands are apparently an ...
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How would natural (resonant) frequencies affect amplitudes?

I read $y=A\sin(2\pi ft)$, where $A$=Amplitude, $f$=Frequency, $t$=Time and $y$=$Y$ position of the wave. Since natural frequencies only take the most effect when they are close to the frequency. How ...
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Frequency of the sound when blowing in a bottle

I'm sure you have tried sometime to make a sound by blowing in an empty bottle. Of course, the tone/frequency of the sound modifies if the bottle changes its shape, volume, etc. I am interested in ...
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Doppler effect “apparent frequency”

In discussing Doppler effect, we use the word "apparent frequency". Does it mean that the frequency of the sound is still that of the source and it is some physiological phenomenon in the listener's ...
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Why does inverting a song has no influence?

I inverted the waveform of a given song and was wondering what will happen. The result is that it sounds the exact same way as before. I used Audacity and doublechecked if the wave-form really is ...
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Sound frequency of dropping bomb

Everyone has seen cartoons of bombs being dropped, accompanied by a whistling sound as they drop. This sound gets lower in frequency as the bomb nears the ground. I've been lucky enough to not be ...
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Resonance and Natural Vibrations in Vacuum

In my Physics textbook, it says that if two pendulums of the same natural frequency are placed next to each other and if one is set into vibration, the other starts resonating and when the first one ...
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The energy of an electromagnetic wave

The intensity of an electromagnetic wave is only related to its amplitude $E^2$ and not its frequency. A photon has the same wavelength as the wave that's carrying it, and its energy is $h f$. So ...
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The definition of “frequency” in different contexts

I have been doing some research on all kinds of sound-related topics lately and have been a bit confused by the different uses of the term "frequency". Of course, the most general meaning of frequency ...
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How can a Human voice or animal voice have unique frequency

Well this is pretty noobish question and I am not sure how to ask. When We talk we don't talk in an uniform frequency. Then how can one measure frequency of ones sound/voice ? I am asking this cause ...