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How do strings vibrate and what forces slow them?
How can one still a vibrating body as quickly as possible?
Can one deduce material properties of a body from measurements
of its vibrations?
This semester we shall continue our research on several fronts:
- Experiments with magnetically damped strings;
- Computational experiments with tritars and spider webs;
- Inverse eigenvalue problems for damped strings
[Thursday seminar];
- Mathematical models and numerical computations for wound strings;
- Refinement, improvement, and testing of data acquisition hardware and software.
Progress reports and software are maintained
in the Physics of Strings group on
OwlSpace.
Inverse Spectral Theory Seminar: A senior seminar addressing inverse
spectral theory for vibrating (stiff, damped) strings will meet on Mondays
at 4pm in DH 2014.
Code:
+ Network Code of Jesse Chan. See his connexions module
for details and demo.
Archive of pre-Owlspace material:
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