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Tutorial: creating the sound of hydrogen

2011-08-24

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In this tutorial I show how I synthesized the sound of hydrogen for the "Sound of Hydrogen" video using mathematica - it's a little technical, but you've been requesting it! Created by Henry Reich


play a sine wave at say 440 hertz
/youtube/video/IhvW8yZdE5A?t=17.92
using the harmonic series
/youtube/video/IhvW8yZdE5A?t=68.110001
spectral lines of hydrogen
/youtube/video/IhvW8yZdE5A?t=129.11