Beats from Singing Glass Tubes (3B60.16)
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Two small glass Rijke tubes (3D30.70) have electrically heated wire grids and moveable tubes. Move a tube so that the grid is at the 1/4 point and the tube will "sing." Put it anywhere else, and it won’t. Since the tubes are slightly different lengths, running them both together produces beats.