The Ruben’s Tube: Dancing Fire
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Or, as in this case, a cool experiment during vacation.
This is a first attempt at creating a Ruben’s standing wave flame tube showing the relationship between sound waves and air pressure. It looks quite hazardous and not to be tried at home without guidance, permission and precaution.
Wikipedia explains it this way – or you could just ask Jake or Preston or another physics student.
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WOW!!
That was really neat. Thanks for posting this.