Abstract
THE higher overtones of vibrating plates sometimes combine when it so happens that the periods of two or more of them are very nearly equal. This phenomenon, which is of academic rather than of applied interest, has been fully studied for a free circular plate1.
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Waller, M. D., Proc. Phys. Soc., 50, 77 (1938).
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WALLER, M. Fundamental Vibration of a Rectangular Plate. Nature 143, 27–28 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143027a0
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