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Acoustically driven water waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

R. E. Franklin
Affiliation:
Engineering Laboratory, University of Oxford
M. Price
Affiliation:
Engineering Laboratory, University of Oxford
D. C. Williams
Affiliation:
Engineering Laboratory, University of Oxford

Abstract

If the air in a resonance tube half-filled with water is driven at an acoustic resonant frequency, surface waves of much lower frequency may also be excited. Experiments on this phenomenon are reported and compared with the theory of spatial resonance.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1973 Cambridge University Press

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