Exploring Fourier methods with beer bottles

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Autori principali: Kordahl, David, Foster, Emma
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author Kordahl, David
Foster, Emma
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Foster, Emma
contents As anyone who has blown across the mouth of a beer bottle knows, beer bottles have a well-defined fundamental frequency. This paper shows how a beer bottle's acoustical resonance can be modeled as a one-dimensional driven-damped oscillator and includes enough detail to be useful in undergraduate laboratory experiments. While the frequency-domain Green's function of the bottle can be extracted through sequential pure-tone measurements, sufficient data to fit the model's parameters can be collected in just a few seconds when Fourier methods are used.
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spellingShingle Exploring Fourier methods with beer bottles
Kordahl, David
Foster, Emma
Physics Education
Applied Physics
Classical Physics
As anyone who has blown across the mouth of a beer bottle knows, beer bottles have a well-defined fundamental frequency. This paper shows how a beer bottle's acoustical resonance can be modeled as a one-dimensional driven-damped oscillator and includes enough detail to be useful in undergraduate laboratory experiments. While the frequency-domain Green's function of the bottle can be extracted through sequential pure-tone measurements, sufficient data to fit the model's parameters can be collected in just a few seconds when Fourier methods are used.
title Exploring Fourier methods with beer bottles
topic Physics Education
Applied Physics
Classical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12312