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The Tuning Fork Mystery: unexpected vibrations

2018-03-23

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There is a follow-up video to this one looking at some other strange vibrations viewers noticed.

The Tuning Fork Mystery: an unexpected update/youtube/video/MdZ-vkfZS0I

Possibly over-qualified for this video, Hugh Hunt is a Cambridge University Reader in Engineering Dynamics & Vibration.

http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/hemh1

See some of the fun stuff he does without me.

http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~hemh1/

Check out Mirko’s three-sided coin simulation here.

https://almondbread.github.io/tscsim/

All the links for the various three-sided coin resources are here.

http://think-maths.co.uk/threesidedcoin

CORRECTIONS

For the people who couldn’t get it to work at home: /youtube/video/MdZ-vkfZS0I

- Let me know if you spot anything else!

Thanks to my Patreon supporters who made these ridiculous projects possible. Here is a random subset:

Jon Ivy

Erin Cassie

Jade Bilkey

Laura Dale

Samuel Ytterbrink

Support my channel and I can make more videos:

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Music by Howard Carter

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