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The answer to this question has significant overlap with my answer on piano tuning. There, I discuss how a thick wire has an extra restoring force, in addition to its tension, from its resistance to bending. This modifies the usual wave equation to $$v^2 \frac{\partial^2 y}{\partial x^2} - A \frac{\partial^4 y}{\partial x^4} = \frac{\partial^2 y}{\partial t^... 18 This source shows that for free beams like the bars of the glockenspiel, angular frequency \omega=2\pi f and wavenumber k=\frac{2\pi}{\lambda} are related by$$\omega^2=\frac{YI}{\rho A} k^4$$where I=\frac{1}{12}bh^3 is 2nd moment of cross-sectional area about a horizontal axis through the centre, and A=hb is the cross-sectional area. In the ... 3 Dielectric materials have a loss tangent : at a given frequency, the response to EM radiation will have a phase lag relative to the incident wave. For pure dielectric materials, the phase angle is zero; when there are losses in the material, the loss angle will be non-zero. For a given loss angle (usually given as the tangent of the angle) the amplitude of ... 3 The maximum and minimum are "local" values. As you move closer to A (at 0.2 m you are MUCH closer to A than to B) the amplitude of A is much larger - so although there may be destructive interference between A and B at that point, this is by no means perfect interference, and the resulting amplitude is still quite large (lot of A minus a little of B). ... 3 In this type of problem one has to take great care in defining intensities. In this case there are 4 different intensities: 1. I_{ss}, the intensity received by the static observer as perceived by himself, 2. I_{ms}, the intensity received by the moving observer as perceived by a static observer. 3 I_sm, the intensity received by the static observer as ... 2 I would choose as notation conventions: \Delta X for a constant increment, ie if X_{n}-X_{n-1}=\Delta X for all n and with underscript otherwise: \Delta X_n=X_{n}-X_{n-1} I prefer the increment to have the index of the value it produces (adding increment \Delta X_n gives value X_{n}) but that's a matter of taste. It's not clear to me what the A ... 2 I would name the period at n as P_n, and to the change in period as \Delta P_n. In such a case you have the rate of change of the period, that is the change in period per unit of time is \Delta P/t_A=\left(\frac{1}{f_{n+1}}-\frac{1}{f_n}\right)/t_A. However, to define the angular acceleration, \alpha, you do not need the period, the definition is ... 2 You typically cannot write subscripts or superscripts (easily) as comments in code, so I'll assume you are rather interested in writing this into a specification or some kind of documentation that does support such notation. When notation becomes cumbersome, here's what I'll generally do: 1) for discrete increment always use (n), or (k) or the like ... 2 To add to the existing answer, I think there is a nomenclature issue. When you say "bass" people understand "low frequencies" but what you probably mean is "beat". Rapid changes in amplitude, like a beat, carry a lot of high frequencies. You do hear mostly the beat from other peoples' headphones, ans it's annoying. You can think about the extreme case: the ... 2 Basically Oscars answers says it all, but I just want to add a few more things. When a string is plucked its motion need to follow the wave equation$$ \frac{d^2}{dt^2}y(x,t) - c^2 \frac{d^2}{dx^2}y(x,t) = 0  with Dirichlet boundary conditions (the ends of the string are fixed). $c$ is the speed of sound of the string's medium. The function $y_n(x,t) = \... 2 If a string has multiple waves expressed in it, this is done by adding the waves individually. Each frequency in the harmonic series can be expressed by a wave, a guitar string is the sum of these waves in different proportions. The resulting wave is significantly different than the others. See below for the sum of the first three frequencies in the ... 2 He is referring to the second paragraph of 31-3: However, we shall discuss the formula we have obtained, in various possible circumstances. First of all, for most ordinary gases (for instance, for air, most colorless gases, hydrogen, helium, and so on) the natural frequencies of the electron oscillators correspond to ultraviolet light. These ... 1 If you've got an older web browser kicking around that still runs Java applets you should check out Paul Falstad's Loaded string simulation. You can add harmonics to your heart's content. 1 With respect to the air the wavelength will be$\lambda = 343/f$everywhere. With respect to the ground the wavelength will be$\lambda = v_{sound}/f$but$v_{sound}\$ will depend on position with respect to the source - picture your classic Doppler shift diagram with a set of not quite concentric circles. Downwind from the source the wavelength, measured ...

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Resonance is the process of driving a system to oscillate at a resonant frequency. The property of these frequencies is that they can store vibrational energy or vibrational quanta depending on the description you choose. This means that driving the system at these frequencies can create much larger amplitude oscillations than other frequencies, which ...

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Resonance is the name for the phenomenon. The resonant frequency is the frequency at which this phenomenon occurs. The frequency of the oscillation when you observe resonance. Frequency is just one of the characteristics of a resonance. Another one is Q factor. Others might be the mode structure of the resonant wave.

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