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    Episode 324 6 Kundt S Experiment

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    Kundt's experiment uses a glass tube filled with cork dust to visualize the nodes and antinodes of standing sound waves. A loudspeaker at one end of the tube produces sound waves that set up standing wave patterns within the tube at certain frequencies. The cork dust collects at the nodes where the pressure variation is at a minimum. This demonstration can be used to determine the speed of sound in the tube by measuring the wavelength of standing waves produced. While originally developed to measure sound speed, the main purpose is to demonstrate standing wave behavior to help students understand variations in pressure and velocity.

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    Kundt's experiment uses a glass tube filled with cork dust to visualize the nodes and antinodes of standing sound waves. A loudspeaker at one end of the tube produces sound waves that set up standing wave patterns within the tube at certain frequencies. The cork dust collects at the nodes where the pressure variation is at a minimum. This demonstration can be used to determine the speed of sound in the tube by measuring the wavelength of standing waves produced. While originally developed to measure sound speed, the main purpose is to demonstrate standing wave behavior to help students understand variations in pressure and velocity.

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    Kundt's experiment uses a glass tube filled with cork dust to visualize the nodes and antinodes of standing sound waves. A loudspeaker at one end of the tube produces sound waves that set up standing wave patterns within the tube at certain frequencies. The cork dust collects at the nodes where the pressure variation is at a minimum. This demonstration can be used to determine the speed of sound in the tube by measuring the wavelength of standing waves produced. While originally developed to measure sound speed, the main purpose is to demonstrate standing wave behavior to help students understand variations in pressure and velocity.

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    Kundt's experiment uses a glass tube filled with cork dust to visualize the nodes and antinodes of standing sound waves. A loudspeaker at one end of the tube produces sound waves that set up standing wave patterns within the tube at certain frequencies. The cork dust collects at the nodes where the pressure variation is at a minimum. This demonstration can be used to determine the speed of sound in the tube by measuring the wavelength of standing waves produced. While originally developed to measure sound speed, the main purpose is to demonstrate standing wave behavior to help students understand variations in pressure and velocity.

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    TAP 324- 6: Kundt's experiment

    Kundt's tube
    Kundt's demonstration, first described in 1866, gives a visual record of the nodes and
    antinodes of a standing wave set up in a tube. It can be used to determine the speed of sound
    within the tube, but here you are only asked to show standing wave behaviour.

    You will need

     1000 cm3 glass measuring cylinder


     signal generator
     small loudspeaker and paper cone
     cork dust

    What to do

    60cm

    to signal
    generator

    10cm

    measuring cylinder

    paper cone loudspeaker

    1. Vary the frequency of the signal generator from 1 kHz to 10 kHz. There will be certain
    frequencies where standing waves are set up and you will observe a pattern of dust
    collecting at the nodes and moving away from the antinodes. Explain this
    phenomenon using the idea that pressure antinodes are places of maximum pressure
    variation but minimum velocity variation.
    2. Can you see how to use this experiment to calculate the speed of sound in the air in
    the tube?
    3. Might you expect the result to be significantly different from a speed measured in
    open air?

    You may have seen that


    1. Areas of dust collect in the tube at nodes when the frequency is such that standing
    waves are formed.
    2. This experiment can lead to a measurement of the speed of sound in the tube.
    Practical advice
    Technician: place some cork dust (made by filing a cork) into the dry cylinder (a long closed
    glass tube can be substituted for the 1000 cm3 glass measuring cylinder). Arrange the
    cylinder horizontally and tap gently so that a thin layer of dust settles along the tube. Make a
    paper cone to channel the sound energy from the loudspeaker (approximately 50 mm
    diameter) into the cylinder.
    Although this experiment was originally developed to measure the speed of sound, the main
    purpose of the demonstration is to help students understand standing waves in sound as
    areas of maximum and minimum pressure or velocity variation.

    Alternative approaches
    There is a nice demonstration at the San Francisco Exploratorium using a tube on its side
    partly filled with water.

    http://www.exploratorium.edu/music/index.html

    External reference
    This activity is taken from Advancing Physics chapter 6, 120P

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