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H2-21. Audible Young's Experiment - Group Listening
Purpose
To demonstrate interference of sound with two coherent sound sources.
Equipment
Loudspeakers on rotating boom permanently mounted on oscillator-amplifier.
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Description
The oscillator-amplifier is set to approximately 3000 Hz, with identical signals being applied to both loudspeakers. Rotating the loudspeakers past the listeners allows them to observe the interference pattern by hearing the alternating maxima and minima in the intensity pattern.
References
Ralph Baierlein and Vacek Miglus, Illustrating double-slit interference: Yet another way, AJP 59, 857 (1991).
H. Sound
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See pages h1. nature of sound
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See pages h2. wave properties of sound
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See pages h3. standing sound waves
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See pages h4. music
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See pages h5. the ear
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See pages h6. the voice
H. Sound
-
See pages h1. nature of sound
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See pages h2. wave properties of sound
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See pages h3. standing sound waves
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See pages h4. music
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See pages h5. the ear
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See pages h6. the voice
Physics Lab Demos