Oscillations, waves and sound

Georg Simon Ohm (16.03.1787-6.07.1854) was a German physicist, a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1839).

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (7.02.1888 — 21.11.1970) was an Indian physicist, a member of the Indian Academy of Sciences, its founder and president (from 1934).

Félix Savart (30.06.1791-16.03.1841) — a French physicist, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1827).

Joseph Sauveur (24.03.1653-9.07.1716) —a French scientist, the founder of musical acoustics, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1696).

Immanuil Lazarevich Fabelinsky (born 27.01.1911) Soviet physicist, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1979).

Thomas Young (13.06.1773-10.05.1829) was an English scientist, one of the founders of wave optics, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1794) and its secretary in 1802-29.

Sergei Mikhailovich Rytov (born 03.08.1908) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1968).

John William Rayleigh (Strutt) (12.11.1842 —30.06.1919) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1873), its president in 1905–08.

Nikolai Dmitriyevich Papaleksi (2.12.1880—03.02.1947) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1939; corresponding member 1931).

Robert Vivian Pound (born 16.05.1919) is an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1961).

Sergei Yakovlevich Sokolov (8.10.1897 —20.05.1957) was a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953).

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Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (30.11.1756—3.07.1827) was a German physicist and the founder of experimental acoustics.

Rem Viktorovich Khokhlov (15.07.1926 — 8.08.1977) was a Soviet physicist, one of the founders of nonlinear optics, an academician (1974; corresponding member 1966).

Leonhard Euler (15.04.1707-18.09.1783) — a mathematician, mechanician and physicist.

Acoustic quantities Name Symbol Wavelength λ Sound power P Sound energy W Sound intensity I Speed of sound c Frequency ν, f

The experiments are carried out by Maxim Belokon and Alexei Bespalkov.

V.L. Andreev E – mail: avl130740@yandex.ru “The process of scientific discovery is, in essence, a continual flight from wonder”.

One of the senses used by man is hearing.

How glad the waiters of the whole planet would be if their bosses were shown the experiment of the physicists of Princeton University.