Shattering Wineglass

Sound is used to drive a wineglass into resonance behavior. In the first clip we see in 600 fps a glass vibrating at its fundamental frequency, with a small strip of paper bouncing up and down as it straddles the lip of the glass. The next two clips show us breaking a (different) glass, first showing the break in 30 fps and then in 600 fps, with the sound from the 30 fps footage slowed down for added drama. Please use eye and ear protection when doing this at home!

For details on our setup see http://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k16940&pa...

Category:

Education

Tags:

• resonance
• normal modes
• oscillations
• shattering wineglass
• breaking wineglass
• breaking wine glass
• shattering wine glass
• demonstration
• 600 fps

[mrnapili]

my speakers were on high so... do you know where i can buy windows?

[assimilatordk]

Thats all fine and dandy, but in Mythbusters, someone did this WITHOUT speakers, only his bare voice!!!!!!!

[masterrecon118]

wow I always thought it was a myth or something 0_o

[Kapooooot]

@gaminghero1 cool beans!

[gaminghero1]

@Kapooooot just u

[spo0ons]

im too scared to turn the sound on too high

[Zandraweirdo]

wooohaahh

[nerdygurl]

why is it flashing green... ?

[Kapooooot]

is it just me or does the screen turn green?

[ImLegend932]

god that sound is soo annoying ... can't really blame the glass for breaking -.-

[mhha22]

I was putting my headphones...until i got an arrow to the knee