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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I've been looking for DIY Chladni plates for hours on youtube.. your bucket+trash bag is the best all night!
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
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
7 жыл бұрын
boys will be boys when playing in a sand box.
@boabab95
7 жыл бұрын
or screaming at it ;)
@AnneGoggansQHHT
4 жыл бұрын
boabab95 HAHAHAHA classic....they are probably used to it 🤪
@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.
You the man Bruce! Your example is the best 💣
It just fascinates the heck out of me how the tones create those consistent visual patterns.
@xinalorreen2031
Жыл бұрын
And if you look at art created by ayahuasca shamans you'll find the same patterns. Super cool.
@jsmythib
8 ай бұрын
Acoustic waves interacting. Imagine the effects of EM radiation or even gravitational wave interactions on relevant matter :)
@notaspeck6104
5 ай бұрын
They're so pretty as well
Now I know what my neighbour is doing, he's just creating sound with sand. I thought he was calling out to me.
Awesome videos Mr. Yeany. Wish I had you as a science teacher. I hope your students appreciate you.
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
Love this video! Thank You Bruce! Very inspiring and very nice to use common items to create the experiments!
This was such a great example of clear, practical scientific demonstration- thank you for your excellent work Mr Bruce!! 💪🏼
so simple yet so education and fun. your time and effort are very appreciated. thank you thank you thank you
Thank you, Bruce!
Such a great teacher! Thanks for the projects. I can make them in my school too! A grand salute to you!
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.
Best videos EVER! I love that these are so simple and so amazing. thank you so much for making these!!!!
Bruce thanks for this video I always love your videos you're a amazing teacher
I love you! Thank you so much for making this in such a simple way!
Amazing experiment! Even if one sucks in the science department, one cannot say this isn't awesome! Thanks for sharing, Bruce!
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.
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!
The salt visuals really amazed me. I had no idea. Amazing!
I love how simple your devices are
Mr Bruce, great and amazing video and its very very interesting because I like music and physics. thank you very much for this.
Wow, I definitely need to built one of this ! It's awesome !
Such an inventive experiment. Thank you so much!
Absolutely awesome.
Bruce you're awesome!
Good stuff! Thank you for taking time to share
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
5 ай бұрын
good luck, there should enough ideas to keep you busy for a while
this is just amazing to look at, great video
Simply amazing!
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!
So... freaking... amazing!!!!
Bruce - Great job on this video! Love the screaming Chladni patterns.
@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.
Mr Bruce, you are so inspiring 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I am a physics teacher from Turkey, I love watching your videos, thanks for sharing 🙋🏼
@YeanyScience
7 жыл бұрын
Hello Guzin, thank you, nice to hear from someone in Turkey
@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
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?
Holy shit that's amazing
simple and enjoyable to watch, please create more videos.
Nice! Keep it up!
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
3 жыл бұрын
thanks, not sure what to recommend for you speaker but keep trying, good luck with it
Very good this demonstration, thank you!
This is awesome! I'm going to try this in my classroom.
Thank you Mr Bruce you always make my brain so happy! :-)
You make my most favorite videos. You turn complex science into fun that inspires all❤
@YeanyScience
2 жыл бұрын
thank you Jami
ma shaa Allah ..thats amazing
Thank you. I will try once again
Never get tired of videos visualize the invisible :)
This is awesome! Thank you!!
That was great thank you. Love the enthusiasm 👍
Mr. Yeany, I don't think you could know what a difference this video has made for me. With my infinite thanks.
@YeanyScience
5 жыл бұрын
glad you liked it
Another great educational video, Thanks!
0:30 That moment when you can't stop playing with the new toy.
@victorm928
7 жыл бұрын
Takeupa - Let's get starteeeeeed! - All right. .... *This thing is so funny* - Let's go. 😂
Amazing! You are my hero!
i love you this is awesomely amazing and wonderful! thank you please never stop making these awesome videos
wonderful explanation
Insane! That is so cool!
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 :)
What an inspiring educator.
Best and simplest video.Great job!
This is phenomenal
Oh wow! Great!
FANTASTIC, VERY NICE.........!!!!!
This is fantastic!
Always a delight to click on a random video because of the thumbnail/title and it turns out to be a Bruce Yeany vid!
well done explanation of one of my favorite topics
Omg you getting me so much ideas for my class. Awesome
excellent vid. and very impressive singing!
Love this video! Gonna give it a try
Sounds like you had a lot of fun making this video!
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.
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
Its really Great experiment .. you are Good Teacher .. thank u.
I gotta say, the digital clock at 1:40 in the top right looks so mesmerising when shot with your camera.
Fantastisch, danke!
You sir are cool! I enjoy these vids very much!
Excellent vidéo thanks so much ❤
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
Жыл бұрын
Thank you , Prof. JS Miller has been a big inspiration in my teaching
Sir, you are an inspiration. Greetings from a couple of artists in Portugal ;)
really awesome demo thanks
thank you very much
Omg this is awesome, I wanna build this
Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏻
Loved your video
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.
Excellent 👍
Very very cool. Awesome channel.
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
so so good
Nice!!!
Excellent professor 🙏🙏
Amazing 👍
Thanks you sir for I am taught by you that What I have been seeking for 🙏🙏
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
Ahhh it was the perfect opportunity to play the Close Encounters of the Third Kind theme :D
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.
Very cool 👍
Wow that's cool 👍🏻
Very nice sound
You're such a cool teacher!
@YeanyScience
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Jonathan
Good lord I love your videos... This is so creative and interesting!
@YeanyScience
7 жыл бұрын
thank you
Just genius...
superb video