Pipe closed at one end | Whistling bottle
By Vibrations of air column in a pipe open at both ends consists of fundamental frequency together with all harmonics.
The objective of this experiment is to understand vibration of air column in a pipe open at both ends.
Procedure
You need internally corrugated flexible plastic pipe of about one metre length.
Hold one end of the pipe and whirl it in a circle. It creates a musical sound. Change the speed and length of the portion which is rotating, sound also changes.
Discussion
Air pressure is decreased at the rotating end (Bernoulli principle). So air enters from the end in your hand and exits from the rotating end. The faster you rotate, the faster the air shoots out.
Corrugations cause the passing air to vibrate. These vibrations strike your eardrums and you hear the sound. Whirl the pipe faster, the sound is of higher frequency. Slow whirling lowers the frequency.
To verify that air really passes through the rotating pipe, hold tiny paper bits near the end in your hand. These papers bits are sucked up and comes out through the rotating end.
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