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the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This video from MIT TechTV demonstrates how to break a glass using sound. The demonstrator determines the resonant frequency of the glass and plays a tone of that frequency with a function generator. The video page has a description of the phenomenon beneath the video.
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Number = {1 May 2025},
Month = {May 27, 2009},
Year = {2009}
}
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