Rijke tube
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The Rijke tube is a cylindrical tube with both ends open, inside of which a heat source is placed that turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave, due to thermo-acoustic instab
Interior of a Rijke tube being heated by a gas torch
Pieter Rijke
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Petrus "Pieter" Leonardus Rijke was a Dutch physicist who was Professor in Experimental physics at Leiden University. He spent his scientific career exploring the physics of electricity, and is known
Rijke tube
…self-amplifying standing wave, due to thermo-acoustic instability. It is an entertaining phenomenon in acoustics and is an excellent example of resonance. P. L. Rijke was a professor of physics at the Leiden University in the Netherlands when, in 1859, he discovered a way of using heat to sustain a sound in a cylindrical…
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