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Exploratorium Vibrations of a string - 2nd Harmonic

We took a string of Christmas lights and started to swing it around! The picture was taken with an exposure time of 1 second.

This is one of the modes of vibration of the string ("mode of vibration" just means style or way of vibrating). What other modes are possible on a string fixed at both ends?

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Uploaded on December 28, 2006
Taken in February 2007