Sound Visualizer & Chladni Patterns Formed on a Plastic Bucket // Homemade Science with Bruce Yeany

The Sound Visualizer and the Chladni Bucket are used to show how vibrations from sound waves are able to create some very beautiful patterns using a few simple pieces of equipment. As compression waves from sound hit a surface it may cause standing waves to form. In the first case, a mirror attached to the surface has a laser aimed at it, the reflected beam is then aimed at a wall and a pattern will form due to the way the surface deforms due to the standing wave. Changing the pitch will cause the surface to distort in different ways causing new patterns to be seen. As combinations of tones are played at the same time, more complex patterns will be formed.
The traditional Chladni Plates are solid metal plates that were originally caused to resonant using a violin bow. Sand or some type of powder is commonly used to show the patterns formed by settling into the areas of little energy (nodes) versus being removed from areas of high energy (antinodes). The more advanced version can use a tone generator and vibrator to excite the metal plates and produce more intricate patterns. In this case, I am producing the same types or standing waves on a trash bag that has been stretched across the top of a 5 gallon bucket. The simplest way to resonant the surface is to simply shout at it at various pitches.

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  • @CaptKROD
    @CaptKROD Жыл бұрын

    I've been looking for DIY Chladni plates for hours on youtube.. your bucket+trash bag is the best all night!

  • @boabab95
    @boabab957 жыл бұрын

    Teachers in hallway: *Teacher 1*- Is Bruce Yodeling in his classroom?!? *Teacher 2*- No, He's just screaming at sand. *Teacher 1*-Oh ok, that makes more sense.

  • @YeanyScience

    @YeanyScience

    7 жыл бұрын

    LOL, you pretty much nailed it, the teachers around me are pretty good sports and have accepted me doing things like this

  • @unknowncuyler5449

    @unknowncuyler5449

    7 жыл бұрын

    boys will be boys when playing in a sand box.

  • @boabab95

    @boabab95

    7 жыл бұрын

    or screaming at it ;)

  • @AnneGoggansQHHT

    @AnneGoggansQHHT

    4 жыл бұрын

    boabab95 HAHAHAHA classic....they are probably used to it 🤪

  • @zecuse

    @zecuse

    3 жыл бұрын

    I feel like this should be mandatory for all physics teachers at some point in the year. For me, it was bowling ball week while learning about Newton's laws. It didn't help that we were on the second floor.

  • @joshbetsey7292
    @joshbetsey729236 минут бұрын

    You the man Bruce! Your example is the best 💣

  • @CopyWhoTV
    @CopyWhoTV5 жыл бұрын

    It just fascinates the heck out of me how the tones create those consistent visual patterns.

  • @xinalorreen2031

    @xinalorreen2031

    Жыл бұрын

    And if you look at art created by ayahuasca shamans you'll find the same patterns. Super cool.

  • @jsmythib

    @jsmythib

    8 ай бұрын

    Acoustic waves interacting. Imagine the effects of EM radiation or even gravitational wave interactions on relevant matter :)

  • @notaspeck6104

    @notaspeck6104

    5 ай бұрын

    They're so pretty as well

  • @latzisme942
    @latzisme9422 жыл бұрын

    Now I know what my neighbour is doing, he's just creating sound with sand. I thought he was calling out to me.

  • @SkipThorp
    @SkipThorp7 жыл бұрын

    Awesome videos Mr. Yeany. Wish I had you as a science teacher. I hope your students appreciate you.

  • @mountaineerfox9234
    @mountaineerfox92347 жыл бұрын

    love your simple and informative experiments. my grandfather who was a math and science teacher would have loved them as well and it's like watching his experiments again. thank your and keep it going

  • @cercexperimentis9680
    @cercexperimentis9680 Жыл бұрын

    Love this video! Thank You Bruce! Very inspiring and very nice to use common items to create the experiments!

  • @mikebedford572
    @mikebedford5722 жыл бұрын

    This was such a great example of clear, practical scientific demonstration- thank you for your excellent work Mr Bruce!! 💪🏼

  • @1252PFC
    @1252PFC7 жыл бұрын

    so simple yet so education and fun. your time and effort are very appreciated. thank you thank you thank you

  • @chydedelaplace8947
    @chydedelaplace89477 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Bruce!

  • @nishbrogaming6338
    @nishbrogaming63382 жыл бұрын

    Such a great teacher! Thanks for the projects. I can make them in my school too! A grand salute to you!

  • @pcrawford666
    @pcrawford6666 жыл бұрын

    Watched loads of your vids now, Everything I want to have go at 😁. Its great to have these demonstration vids to learn from. Epic teaching style.

  • @ryanalaska8570
    @ryanalaska8570 Жыл бұрын

    Best videos EVER! I love that these are so simple and so amazing. thank you so much for making these!!!!

  • @rachelannkrueger7638
    @rachelannkrueger76387 жыл бұрын

    Bruce thanks for this video I always love your videos you're a amazing teacher

  • @georgiospapadopoulos2066
    @georgiospapadopoulos20664 жыл бұрын

    I love you! Thank you so much for making this in such a simple way!

  • @zenitpro
    @zenitpro4 жыл бұрын

    Amazing experiment! Even if one sucks in the science department, one cannot say this isn't awesome! Thanks for sharing, Bruce!

  • @Philibuster92
    @Philibuster924 жыл бұрын

    That was amazing. I loved watching that. I feel like making my own now and doing a lot of experiments. I can already think of a lot of applications for it.

  • @kristengriffin4006
    @kristengriffin40066 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Mr. Yeany for making this video! My four year old daughter and I made the laser sound visualizer and it was awesome! Will be using this idea for many avenues including vision board parties and in a preschool classroom teaching that words do have power! ...We also made the sand pendulum! Thanks again for the simple instruction, but very detailed and easy to understand concepts!

  • @CopyWhoTV
    @CopyWhoTV5 жыл бұрын

    The salt visuals really amazed me. I had no idea. Amazing!

  • @grzegorzcichosz8240
    @grzegorzcichosz82407 жыл бұрын

    I love how simple your devices are

  • @tornadofay
    @tornadofay7 жыл бұрын

    Mr Bruce, great and amazing video and its very very interesting because I like music and physics. thank you very much for this.

  • @fiftyfat
    @fiftyfat7 жыл бұрын

    Wow, I definitely need to built one of this ! It's awesome !

  • @ginsheart
    @ginsheart Жыл бұрын

    Such an inventive experiment. Thank you so much!

  • @chrisw3834
    @chrisw38347 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely awesome.

  • @martinblouin3639
    @martinblouin36397 жыл бұрын

    Bruce you're awesome!

  • @oakwoodfixitguy8183
    @oakwoodfixitguy81833 жыл бұрын

    Good stuff! Thank you for taking time to share

  • @Guishan_Lingyou
    @Guishan_Lingyou5 ай бұрын

    Hey Bruce, I've been watching your videos for quite a few years for my own entertainment. Now, I'm rewatching for ideas to amaze my little children and get them thinking about science.

  • @YeanyScience

    @YeanyScience

    5 ай бұрын

    good luck, there should enough ideas to keep you busy for a while

  • @kevinconaty6921
    @kevinconaty69217 жыл бұрын

    this is just amazing to look at, great video

  • @eze4
    @eze47 жыл бұрын

    Simply amazing!

  • @frankiethefrank
    @frankiethefrank6 жыл бұрын

    Wow, I can scarce believe how amazing this was to watch, I want to teach Year 3 sound just for doing this damn lesson now... it would blow their minds just like it's just blown mine!

  • @biscuitsalive
    @biscuitsalive7 жыл бұрын

    So... freaking... amazing!!!!

  • @stevespangler5100
    @stevespangler51007 жыл бұрын

    Bruce - Great job on this video! Love the screaming Chladni patterns.

  • @YeanyScience

    @YeanyScience

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Steve, I had a lot of fun with this one, ( well, that's actually true with all of these) the shots were pretty much first take videos as I was experimenting with the bucket, so the next step is to we see how we can improve it on it.

  • @guzindulkadiroglu7502
    @guzindulkadiroglu75027 жыл бұрын

    Mr Bruce, you are so inspiring 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I am a physics teacher from Turkey, I love watching your videos, thanks for sharing 🙋🏼

  • @YeanyScience

    @YeanyScience

    7 жыл бұрын

    Hello Guzin, thank you, nice to hear from someone in Turkey

  • @payamsaber5545

    @payamsaber5545

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@YeanyScience hello i tried to make it but it's not working like that, is it a special laser or mirror ?

  • @rgudduu

    @rgudduu

    5 ай бұрын

    @@YeanyScience , i am not sure i understand why would a mirror-reflected light be a pattern? 9:57 Since the mirror is a plane, no matter the vibration underneath, shouldn't the reflected light form just a single point on the wall at a time? Why is the pattern a closed loop?

  • @KnowArt
    @KnowArt7 жыл бұрын

    Holy shit that's amazing

  • @IronMoe
    @IronMoe2 жыл бұрын

    simple and enjoyable to watch, please create more videos.

  • @Tracks777
    @Tracks7777 жыл бұрын

    Nice! Keep it up!

  • @15GKramer
    @15GKramer3 жыл бұрын

    I'm so glad to see you doing this in the classroom. I wish I would have had you as a physics teacher!! I had to go get an engineering degree to realize how much I love vibrations and acoustics. I'm currently building a speaker box with this concept built in. The issue i'm having, of course, is that the rubber membrane is acting as a passive radiator and making a sound of its own, throwing off the tuning of the box. Great content to get people interested in vibrations!

  • @YeanyScience

    @YeanyScience

    3 жыл бұрын

    thanks, not sure what to recommend for you speaker but keep trying, good luck with it

  • @Marvin44
    @Marvin446 жыл бұрын

    Very good this demonstration, thank you!

  • @divinaelbo9386
    @divinaelbo93864 жыл бұрын

    This is awesome! I'm going to try this in my classroom.

  • @javiergomezvillarreal2002
    @javiergomezvillarreal20027 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Mr Bruce you always make my brain so happy! :-)

  • @jamiwilliams5885
    @jamiwilliams58852 жыл бұрын

    You make my most favorite videos. You turn complex science into fun that inspires all❤

  • @YeanyScience

    @YeanyScience

    2 жыл бұрын

    thank you Jami

  • @abdeljalilpr2033
    @abdeljalilpr20337 жыл бұрын

    ma shaa Allah ..thats amazing

  • @sanjaymasand573
    @sanjaymasand5736 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. I will try once again

  • @BenjaminBjornsen
    @BenjaminBjornsen5 жыл бұрын

    Never get tired of videos visualize the invisible :)

  • @jeanatienza1247
    @jeanatienza12474 жыл бұрын

    This is awesome! Thank you!!

  • @genyoutube3828
    @genyoutube3828 Жыл бұрын

    That was great thank you. Love the enthusiasm 👍

  • @shelleynobleart
    @shelleynobleart5 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Yeany, I don't think you could know what a difference this video has made for me. With my infinite thanks.

  • @YeanyScience

    @YeanyScience

    5 жыл бұрын

    glad you liked it

  • @tsviper
    @tsviper7 жыл бұрын

    Another great educational video, Thanks!

  • @LFPaiser
    @LFPaiser7 жыл бұрын

    0:30 That moment when you can't stop playing with the new toy.

  • @victorm928

    @victorm928

    7 жыл бұрын

    Takeupa - Let's get starteeeeeed! - All right. .... *This thing is so funny* - Let's go. 😂

  • @chloes.4308
    @chloes.43086 жыл бұрын

    Amazing! You are my hero!

  • @kmewborn360
    @kmewborn3604 жыл бұрын

    i love you this is awesomely amazing and wonderful! thank you please never stop making these awesome videos

  • @empowered_relationships
    @empowered_relationships7 ай бұрын

    wonderful explanation

  • @jzplayr
    @jzplayr Жыл бұрын

    Insane! That is so cool!

  • @BOLL7708
    @BOLL77087 жыл бұрын

    This is amazing, I've doodled with lasers before, but I built my things with rotating mirrors in LEGO :D I will definitely have to do this to have as a music visualizer here at home! Super neat project :O And so simple as well, nuts! Cheers :)

  • @reference2592
    @reference25922 жыл бұрын

    What an inspiring educator.

  • @themostcomplete
    @themostcomplete Жыл бұрын

    Best and simplest video.Great job!

  • @JollyJoel
    @JollyJoel7 жыл бұрын

    This is phenomenal

  • @heavenly3735
    @heavenly37354 жыл бұрын

    Oh wow! Great!

  • @serjaocvt9726
    @serjaocvt97266 жыл бұрын

    FANTASTIC, VERY NICE.........!!!!!

  • @starrshine369thequantumshaman
    @starrshine369thequantumshaman6 жыл бұрын

    This is fantastic!

  • @elliotburing87
    @elliotburing872 жыл бұрын

    Always a delight to click on a random video because of the thumbnail/title and it turns out to be a Bruce Yeany vid!

  • @stephenhanson3309
    @stephenhanson33093 жыл бұрын

    well done explanation of one of my favorite topics

  • @Synthenist
    @Synthenist4 жыл бұрын

    Omg you getting me so much ideas for my class. Awesome

  • @MarkMcCluney
    @MarkMcCluney7 жыл бұрын

    excellent vid. and very impressive singing!

  • @saraflores4267
    @saraflores42673 жыл бұрын

    Love this video! Gonna give it a try

  • @CMAllstars
    @CMAllstars7 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like you had a lot of fun making this video!

  • @jcardwell3rd
    @jcardwell3rd7 жыл бұрын

    Another epic video. I am an ISO level 4 vibration analyst. If you are close I would like to supplement one of your lessons or at least attend. You are doing great work.

  • @real_armadillo
    @real_armadillo5 жыл бұрын

    I used to have the same keyboard like the one you use when I was a kid. It has the best pre-recorded beats ;D

  • @ehsandaneshvar
    @ehsandaneshvar7 жыл бұрын

    Its really Great experiment .. you are Good Teacher .. thank u.

  • @Febreeze419
    @Febreeze4192 жыл бұрын

    I gotta say, the digital clock at 1:40 in the top right looks so mesmerising when shot with your camera.

  • @lisaarbeka
    @lisaarbeka6 жыл бұрын

    Fantastisch, danke!

  • @ascottrusso
    @ascottrusso4 жыл бұрын

    You sir are cool! I enjoy these vids very much!

  • @GoldenAthena311
    @GoldenAthena3113 ай бұрын

    Excellent vidéo thanks so much ❤

  • @simonelwell9148
    @simonelwell9148 Жыл бұрын

    Inspiring stuff good sir ..... Am reminded of the wonderful Prof. Julius Sumner Miller showing beautifully geometric patterns achieved on a steel plate with a violin bow .....

  • @YeanyScience

    @YeanyScience

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you , Prof. JS Miller has been a big inspiration in my teaching

  • @danielvmelim.studio
    @danielvmelim.studio5 жыл бұрын

    Sir, you are an inspiration. Greetings from a couple of artists in Portugal ;)

  • @emy1111
    @emy11114 жыл бұрын

    really awesome demo thanks

  • @Love__light__Oneness26
    @Love__light__Oneness266 ай бұрын

    thank you very much

  • @aaron4299
    @aaron42997 жыл бұрын

    Omg this is awesome, I wanna build this

  • @jtveg
    @jtveg Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏻

  • @AbhishekSharma-pw3ep
    @AbhishekSharma-pw3ep2 жыл бұрын

    Loved your video

  • @nobodyspecialdotorgrichard5971
    @nobodyspecialdotorgrichard59715 жыл бұрын

    We built the Chladni plates from your other video. We followed it to a T and it just would not form uniform shapes, just random blobs and it wouldn't even work on most frequencies. Over and over we tweaked it and adjusted changing plates, materials, speakers, volume, but, we just couldn't get salt sugar or sand to create those cool shapes or designs. worked on it for about 7 hours. That pushed our time limit to the edge, so we quickly found and built this one and it too, didn't work well. I tightened and loosened the balloon, moved the laser closer/further, vocalized closer/further from the plastic jar but, we couldn't get those crazy and cool shapes from different vocalizations. We even tried different sized balloons and different brands of balloons too. Nothing. Spent way too long tinkering with it. Then while taking a much needed break, my wife put a metal can on the bottom side of the wood and we tried it again and although it worked better, with a few cool lines, it only works a bit and only on certain vocal frequencies! Super frustrated with this project/experiment. Not sure WTH we did wrong or didn't do right but, after 9 hours with this one and 7 hours with the other one, I'm flat out exhausted. Scientifically, emotionally and physically. HA! You MUST''VE tweaked it some in some way to get it to respond so well. I wish I knew what you did to make it work so well, because it was very responsive/reactive to your vocalizations but, not ours. He had to take it in to school today anyway because there was no time left. Im guessing there were some tweaks that you must've made and I wish you would have gave some suggestions that might have helped to get better response.

  • @xenphoton5833
    @xenphoton5833 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent 👍

  • @data4790
    @data47903 жыл бұрын

    Very very cool. Awesome channel.

  • @MrRollingstone66
    @MrRollingstone663 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video! I wonder if and how the patterns might change in reference if the piece of mirror was in the shape of a perfect circle or a sphere. Or how about this? Using the sand model, make the experiment a closed system by placing the same shape of half of a circle and or as the top part of an Easter egg 🍳 over the top and making a seal at the horizon line of the speaker. Clear for observation and sound reflective. Maybe the lid from a cake dish and hopefully without the nob/handle. Or using colored water over the same surface in white. The element might have an impact. Maybe not salt, but sand might show a different structure on the surface. Tall order I know, but would interesting to see what might happen. Again, this video is awesome. Cheers

  • @mdderrek9280
    @mdderrek9280 Жыл бұрын

    so so good

  • @sighpocket5
    @sighpocket57 жыл бұрын

    Nice!!!

  • @RBN181
    @RBN1815 ай бұрын

    Excellent professor 🙏🙏

  • @linaluckway3260
    @linaluckway32603 жыл бұрын

    Amazing 👍

  • @RBN181
    @RBN1815 ай бұрын

    Thanks you sir for I am taught by you that What I have been seeking for 🙏🙏

  • @QQpapababy
    @QQpapababy2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video. It's so great to demonstrate the sound in visual way. I like the black trash bag covered bucket to play as Chladni plates. Could you please show me how to stretch the bag so smooth? Thanks

  • @darthclide
    @darthclide7 жыл бұрын

    Ahhh it was the perfect opportunity to play the Close Encounters of the Third Kind theme :D

  • @AugustoDeNardin
    @AugustoDeNardin7 жыл бұрын

    You could try to make a sequence of the same note in increasing (and decreasing) octaves. Maybe in some cases the patterns will be a explicitly doubled (or halved) version of the anterior.

  • @Pooya-kyani
    @Pooya-kyani4 жыл бұрын

    Very cool 👍

  • @Mreyebrows20
    @Mreyebrows207 жыл бұрын

    Wow that's cool 👍🏻

  • @jocelyndiones4958
    @jocelyndiones495811 ай бұрын

    Very nice sound

  • @johnaayyy3424
    @johnaayyy34246 жыл бұрын

    You're such a cool teacher!

  • @YeanyScience

    @YeanyScience

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Jonathan

  • @Zucadragon
    @Zucadragon7 жыл бұрын

    Good lord I love your videos... This is so creative and interesting!

  • @YeanyScience

    @YeanyScience

    7 жыл бұрын

    thank you

  • @derwissenskiosk8041
    @derwissenskiosk80417 жыл бұрын

    Just genius...

  • @ksearcher4623
    @ksearcher46237 жыл бұрын

    superb video