CSERD: Acoustics and Vibration Animations

Title	Acoustics and Vibration Animations
Url	http://www.kettering.edu/physics/drussell/Demos.html
Creator	Daniel Russell
Contributor	None listed
Publisher	Kettering University
Description	The links contained contain animations which visualize certain concepts concerning acoustics and vibration. The choice of animations coincides with topics covered in the courses PHYS-382, Acoustics I: Sounds and Sources, and PHYS-482, Acoustics II: Sound and Vibration, which the author teaches at Kettering University.
Format	HTML
Language	English
Subject	Physics, Acoustics
Keyword	Standing Waves, interference, diffraction, particle-wave duality, Vibrational Modes of an Electric Guitar, Vibrational Modes of an Acoustic Guitar, Vibrational Modes of a Hanging Chain, Vibration of a Fixed-Fixed String, The Simple Pendulum, The Doppler Effect, The Baffled Piston, Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Superposition of Two Waves, Sound field radiated by a Tuning Fork, Sound Radiation from Cylindrical Radiators, Sound Fields Radiated by Simple Sources, Simple Harmonic Oscillator, Reverberation Times, Refraction of Sound Waves, Rectangular Membrane, Ray Tracing for Mirrors, Ray Tracing for Lenses, Phase changes upon reflection, Phase Speed versus Group Speed, Longitudinal and Transverse Waves, Fourier Decomposition, Forced Harmonic Oscillator, Examples of Dispersive Waves, Evanescent Modes in Waveguides, Dynamic Absorbers, Driving room modes, Double Slit Interference, Damped Harmonic Oscillator, Coupled Oscillators, Circular Membrane, Beats, Atomic Spectra, Acoustics of Baseball Bats
Audience	Educator, Learner/Student
Education Level	Upper Elementary
Type	Search Engine/Collection, Tool