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Oscillations, waves and sound

Mechanical and electromagnetic oscillations, resonance, acoustics and ultrasound.

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The click

AIM OF THE EXPERIMENT: To show how charged particles make a sound.

Adkhamov, Akobir Adkhamovich

Akobir Adkhamovich Adkhamov (born 4.09.1928) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Tajik SSR (1968).

The sounding cup

AIM OF THE EXPERIMENT: To compare the speed of sound in solids and in air.

Andreev, Nikolai Nikolayevich

Nikolai Nikolayevich Andreev (28.VII 1880 - 31.XII 1970) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1953; corresponding member 1933).

Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist.

Berdyev, Ata Abdurakhmanovich

Ata Abdurakhmanovich Berdyev (born 13.10.1914) is a Soviet physicist and academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Turkmen SSR (1969), its vice-president in 1967-75.

Bunkin, Fyodor Vasilyevich

Fyodor Vasilyevich Bunkin (born 17.1.1929) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1976).

Galkin, Alexander Alexandrovich

Alexander Alexandrovich Galkin (4.07.1914 —22.10.1982) was a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1965).

Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Helmholtz (31.08.1821-8.09.1894) was a German natural scientist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1871).

Doppler, Christian

Doppler, Christian (30.11.1803–17.03.1853) was an Austrian physicist, mathematician and astronomer, and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1848).

Konstantinov, Boris Pavlovich

Boris Pavlovich Konstantinov (6.07.1910 —9.07.1969) was a Soviet physicist, an academician (1960; corresponding member 1953) and vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1967).

Langevin, Paul

Paul Langevin (23.01.1872-19.12.1946) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1934).

Lucas, René Auguste

René Auguste Lucas (born 17.07.1898) is a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1964).

Mandelstam, Leonid Isaakovich

Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam (4.05.1879 —27.06.1944) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1929; a corresponding member in 1928).

Mach, Ernst

Ernst Mach (18.02.1838-19.02.1916) was an Austrian physicist and idealist philosopher.