Drums
When you hit a drum the membrane forms standing waves
There are "special" modes of vibration, wherein all points oscillate with the *same frequency*
There are actually an infinite # of such modes (called eigenmodes), for a given surface!
I've plotted the first 2
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Something I found cool: Multiple boundary conditions in 2D can given the same spectra. Aka: You can't completely decipher the shape of a drum by listening to it! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_the_shape_of_a_drum …
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Thank you for putting this together - something about your thread has helped 'click things together' in my head!
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Consider a drum head of radius R.