If you’re leaving home for a few days and want to keep your houseplants happy, you may have tried using a watering globe – those glass bulbs with long stems Keep reading
Tag: Helmholtz resonance
Fighting Resonance
Resonance is a funny creature, as Dianna discovered when she tried to sing a rising scale through a tube. At certain notes, everyone who attempted to do it had their Keep reading
Reader Question: Resonating Bottles
Reader shoebill-san asks: why does it make that weird sound when i blow over a bottle? i did a science experiment in college where we looked at the resonance in Keep reading
Resonating with the Windows Down
Ever roll down your window a bit while driving and immediately hear a terrible, rhythmic noise? That awful whum-whum-whum is–oddly enough–an example of the same physics that allows you to Keep reading
Making a Bottle Resonate
If you’ve ever blown across the top of a bottle to make it play a note, then you’ve created a Helmholtz resonator. Air flow across the top of the bottle Keep reading