Plucked string model by Ciro Santilli 34 Updated Created
Staring from a triangle wave, this explains why we always get the same musical notes:See also: solving partial differential equations with the Fourier series.
TODO: do higher overtones decay faster in time than the base ones?
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Motion of Plucked String by Dan Russell
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Video 2.
Slow motion: rubber string pulled and released by Pavel Radzivilovsky
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Good symmetric example. But unfortunately the video is too short.