Saturday, 12 March 2016

Random Couscous Snaps Into Beautiful Patterns

German physicist Ernst Chladni invented a technique to show the various modes of vibration of a rigid surface. When resonating, a plate is divided into regions that vibrate in opposite directions, bounded by lines where no vibration occurs. Science presenter Steve Mould plays a metal plate like a violin to show this effect with spilled couscous.



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