closed at one end
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Figure 17.26 Resonance of air in a tube closed at one end, caused by a tuning fork.
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In all cases the maximum air displacements occur at both ends of the tube, giving it different natural frequencies than a tube closed at one end.
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Note that a tube open at both ends has a fundamental frequency twice what it would have if closed at one end.
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A crude approximation of voice production is to consider the breathing passages and mouth to be a resonating tube closed at one end.
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In 1643, Torricelli took a long tube that was closed at one end and filled it with mercury.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
