Adventures with Lissajous figures / Thomas B. Greenslade Jr.

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Greenslade, Thomas Boardman [author.]

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TextSeries: IOP (Series). Release 4. | IOP concise physicsPublisher: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2018]Distributor: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

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electronic

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online resource

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9781643270104
9781643270081

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

781.2 23

LOC classification:

QC228.3 .G743 2018eb

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Contents:

1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Some mathematics -- 1.2. How Lissajous figures are formed

2. History -- 2.1. Nathaniel Bowditch and the Y-shaped pendulum -- 2.2. Jules Lissajous and his tuning forks -- 2.3. Hubert Airy's harmonographs

3. Harmonographs of all sorts -- 3.1. Oscillating mirrors -- 3.2. The kaleidophone -- 3.3. Oscillating blades -- 3.4. Pendulum harmonographs -- 3.5. The Y-shaped pendulum -- 3.6. The two-speaker apparatus -- 3.7. Other harmonographs of unusual design -- 3.8. The oscilloscope -- 3.9. The animated harmonograph -- 3.10. Harmonograph 'toys' -- 4. Lovely Lissajous figures.

Abstract: Lissajous Figures are produced by combining two oscillations at right angles to each other. The figures, drawn by mechanical devices called harmonographs, have scientific uses, but are also enjoyed for their own beauty. The author has been working with harmonographs since his undergraduate days, building several of them, lecturing on them and has written articles about them. This book is intended for people who enjoy physics or art or both

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Institue of Physics	BITS Pilani Hyderabad	781.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		IOP00021

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1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Some mathematics -- 1.2. How Lissajous figures are formed

2. History -- 2.1. Nathaniel Bowditch and the Y-shaped pendulum -- 2.2. Jules Lissajous and his tuning forks -- 2.3. Hubert Airy's harmonographs

Lissajous Figures are produced by combining two oscillations at right angles to each other. The figures, drawn by mechanical devices called harmonographs, have scientific uses, but are also enjoyed for their own beauty. The author has been working with harmonographs since his undergraduate days, building several of them, lecturing on them and has written articles about them. This book is intended for people who enjoy physics or art or both

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Thomas Greenslade received an A.B. in physics from Amherst College in 1959 and a doctorate in experimental low temperature physics from Rutgers University in 1965. From 1964 to 2005 he taught physics at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Since retiring he has continued writing and lecturing about early apparatus. He has been fascinated by Lissajous figures and the harmonographs used to draw them since his undergraduate days.

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