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Chladni Plates

Chladni Plate Driver

Chladni Plate Control Box

Chladni Plate with sand design

PIRA: 3D40.30

A metal plate attached to a speaker will vibrate as the speaker makes sound.  Two-dimensional standing waves will be created in the plate. Waves on a drumhead look like this.  These will be made visible by sprinkling sand on the plate.  Where vibrations are large (antinodes) the sand is flung off, but it will collect where the plate is still (nodes).