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Chladni plates

Chladni plates is the plural of Chladni plate.

Meaning of Chladni plate

Noun

Chladni plate (plural Chladni plates)

  1. A flat sheet of metal (generally square or circular) mounted on a central pillar, over which sand or other particles are sprinkled, which when bowed vibrates and arranges the sand particles into patterns (Chladni figures), allowing for the visualization, and analysis, of sound.
    • […] the phenomenon of forced, or sympathetic, vibrations may be beautifully shown by having two Chladni plates exactly alike, and setting one in vibration by bowing. The sand will gather along the nodal lines, showing that vibrations of a certain character exists upon the plate. If, now, sand is...1909, Benjamin Warner Snow, Notes on Physics, page 579

Questions about Chladni plates

What is Chladni plates the plural of?
Chladni plates is the plural of Chladni plate.

Words near Chladni plates in the dictionary

  1. Chladni figure
  2. Chladni figures
  3. Chladni pattern
  4. Chladni patterns
  5. Chladni plate
  6. Chladni plates
  7. Chladni's figure
  8. Chladni's plate
  9. Chladni's plates
  10. chladniite
  11. chladniites

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