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Vibrations guide tiny glass beads through an underwater maze

21 May 2019
Chladni plates
Sounding off: theoretical force patterns for an underwater Chladni plate at two different frequencies. The force arrows illustrate why glass beads accumulate at the plate antinodes (shown in yellow and red). (Courtesy: K Latifi, H Wijaya and Q Zhou/Physical Review Letters)
The behaviour of some particles on the vibrating surfaces of Chladni plates is reversed underwater,

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Sam Jarman is a science writer based in the UK
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