Ruben's Tube Experiment Physics Project

This was our physics lab final for one of our undergrad courses at Lewis and Clark. Fun experiment that visually demonstrates standing sound waves. This same phenomena occurs through out nature, but it gets even better with fire!

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• ruben
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• fire
• flame
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• wave

[BleedBlsSdmf]

Is it possible to get like a 12" one of these? I would like to use one in a Live music setting?

[baboonman]

@BleedBlsSdmf Sure, but you'd probably have to make it. I'd also suggest using a metal pipe rather than pvc for something like that. You would need to make the holes, small and close together to see a definite shape though.

[baboonman]

I would suggest checking out wikipedia's entry on Rubens' tubes. We used a lot of the references from the wiki to help construct the tube. Good luck!

[dayspeace]

Ang galing naman nito. Hindi ko alam na pwede pala ito. Maganda ito para sa susunod naming ekspirimento sa science.

[SineenN]

you should try and play a melody and see how it would look like would be awesome

[kjun13]

This is what I call "Nerdawesome".

[Triforce4311]

I LOVE science.

[sphinx245]

take a tube, drill holes in it, hook up some propane to one end, speaker to the other end, light gas, turn on stereo, and Presto!

[LordAmbitious]

sound travels on waves by compressing and expanding air, by filling the air in the tube with gas and lighting, then exposing it to a powerful sound, in this case a standing wave, it compresses the burning gas in some parts while expanding it in others, therefore making the flames taller and shorter, and corresponding to the peaks and troughs of the waves.

[thestoner37]

standing waves formed due to the interaction between two waves going in opposite directions with the same amplitude, velocity and frequency.

i believe so anyway.