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IT is well known that a smoked dropping plate can be used to find the pitch of a fork if the value of g is known, and the method is described in most of the text-books on sound. But so far as the writer is aware no attention has been directed to the fact that the existence of some of the upper partials can also be demonstrated with it and their frequency obtained. The method is simpler and more convincing to a student than the method of using resonators.
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PARKER, F. Note on the Upper Partials of a Tuning-fork.. Nature 90, 361 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090361b0
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