Re: Sodaplay: Tacoma Narrows resonator

["Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese" <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>]

Leigh Palmer wrote:

> > PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu writes:
> > > the one which is called sympathetic
> > > vibrations in common parlance!
> > and

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> > 2. If I sing near such a tuning fork and part of my melifluous voice (;-0)
> >  causes the fork to vibrate can I cite resonance?
>
> Yes

Have you tried singing a vowel into a piano with its damper pedal(s) down?

bc
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> That's about the best I can do in words. Take a piece of grass
> between your thumbs and blow on it. If you blow skillfully you
> can get a shrieking whistle. If you blow much harder you can
> tear the blade of grass. Now you have kinesthetic understanding.
>
> Leigh