Why do some metals ring when struck while others don’t?
In: Physics
it’s not so much the composition of the metal (although that has a lot to do with elasticity/stiffness and the length of the ring) but the shape of the resonator.
bells are shaped so because they specifically make a big ass noise
organ pipes are cut and measured in a certain way to naturally want to resonate at their designated frequencies.
if you made a cube of brass it won’t ring because the shape doesn’t vibrate and wobble long enough or create soundwaves in a certain shape, but if you made a bell out of the same brass it would work.
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