Top 10 Demonstrations With Tuning Forks | Arbor Scientific

Tuning forks are wonderful tools for teaching physics. In this video and accompanying blog post, James Lincoln, Physics Teacher, highlights 10 enriching demonstrations using tuning forks with everyday lab items like strobes, mirrors, water, ping pong balls, oscilloscopes, and lasers. Watch now!
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[@KurimClouds]

I wish science classes were more like this

[@Bobby.Kristensen]

Very good physics teacher.

[@mandocool]

Not gonna lie, my jaw dropped when the damn fork transmitted through the laser. 👀🙊

[@ricardocalcina2398]

Honestly one of the best videos I've ever watched, informative and super cool! I just ordered tuning forks too, and this gave me some ideas as to what else I can use them for 😁✊🏿

[@jsnadrian]

#8 blew my mind. Very very cool.

[@ivanmont]

Bloody amazing! and you're a hell of a teacher man!

[@triciaamie7445]

I just shared this with my 10 year old son who is very interested in science. We both found it very cool! Great job :)

[@hintzofcolorconcepts]

a tuning fork will loose weight while it rings when pointed upward and produce propulsion when laid horizontally for a Styrofoam boat. The centrifugal force from the fork's vibration produces a net thrust.

[@alphaglacier7987]

this helped me with homework!

[@mrfluidvision]

That was excellent! Straight & to the point! Excellent teacher!!

[@samelpaso4433]

This is great. Imagine these principles, but amplified and perfected on a level thousands of times more sophisticated, or on a larger scale. When considering ancient man, we have some basic knowledge of what we are finding was being used... Has anyone heard of ringing Hornsfel stones in Africa? Props to Michael Tellinger and the energetic and acoustic properties of singing stones. These were a considerable acoustic discovery, considering their use may go back 10's of thousands of years.. Also, worth a mention is the energetic quality of quartz crystals that create negative ion environments, some of which were implemented on such a massive scale that they were positioned between fault lines to be compressed and so activated by the friction of tectonic activity. On this scale, it's hard to guess what this profound and unusual technology had on human consciousness. When we say "Stone Age" we really underestimate what "stone" can do... and the effect they can have on human consciousness.

[@embadunkadunk5957]

Thank you! This is a very informative video!

[@mirandapotoczny941]

Me and my 5 year old daughter are going through The Handy Physics Answer Book so I wanted to show her a tuning fork. GREAT VIDEO!

[@ashleyblack3941]

Visualizing the sine wave, super cool!!! thank you arbor scientific!

[@TheHomelessNinja]

great video. enthusiastic teaching.

[@ronniet71]

Thank you my friend for the insight. it was great.

[@keanubaker9853]

Awesome video man, really informative , thank you !

[@2ubelazy]

These are actually so amazing.

[@MilkyWayjay7]

you can also use a tuning fork to drill holes and cut material using vibration

[@myrdale]

Really awesome video. Great job!!

[@Mohammadalhashash]

nice demonstrations, thank you

[@iRock2Hard2]

fantastic work, keep up the demos with other experiments. I look forward to seeing your other creations

[@modex20]

This video really resonated with me

[@TheOtherOne7isBlueMaid]

Although this did not help me, this was a very good and instructional video.

[@C0nfusedno0b]

Pretty cool video dude

[@djkrowa]

THANKS BRO! Knowledge transfer 10/10

[@neon_one]

There's a deleted scene from back to the future where 1955 doc puts a tuning fork on the delorian and goes "I knew it"

[@mtrush98]

Great job!

[@trystanfresh]

Too good ...I wish you were my science teacher

[@aladinchanel]

Suscribed and share . Very nice videos .

[@momotaher3965]

awesome work

[@jmjysmjfm]

Thanks for the great video!

[@dyonomitereacher8140]

Thank you, nice information.

[@ynjlky7121]

It is interesting that the turning fork became the inspiration to the logo for two of Japanese music-related companies - YAMAHA and PIONEER.

[@1cscheid]

So awesome!

[@SreenikethanI]

4:10 I love that sine wave part

[@vianac2871]

nice thank youuuuu it was great!

[@bigbrotherbp]

Thanks so much for this video! Very informative and interesting experiments! And very creative as well :-).

[@fltply]

Thanks.Very interesting and I'm sure you barely scratched the surface.so have you ever checked into theories about pyramids and stone cutting and the idea that they may have used sound with tuning forks for ancient technology? You gave me an idea with your laser light manipulated into shapes by the fork sound with the attached mirror. The little symbols that were formed with the light by the sound....they reminded me of the appearance of some hieroglyphs. And there are many pictures of tuning forks being pointed at things by Egyptians. This has only recently been recognized because of things that we now understand about sound's ability to manipulate things. What if, written in their records, there are actual 'recipes' or formulas for things they accomplished that only in modern times are we realizing. If a sound person like you and an antiquities heiroglyph interpreter could look at stuff together? Really not trying to sound Indiana Jones. Seriously think there could be something there.

[@Chr0nalis]

You just gave me an idea with the use of a mirror and laser to create a visual sin wave , thanks :)

[@ntd252]

simple, awesome

[@grenadenazi]

can you demonstrate cutting glass or stone with these forks? perhaps attach a bit on the end of one?

[@imacrapschick]

cool....wish you were my teacher.....I was hooked the entire time. period.

[@brinnswft]

good stuff!

[@marcovsky1000]

Excellent video

[@MrAckeh]

Great video man

[@BennyGraal]

thank you !!

[@stephenboyd6269]

Very interesting, thank you. One thing though, you failed to mention why the musical tuning forks are different from the physics ones. Have you any idea why? Cheers

[@stephey808]

awesome video!

[@lorenzoscavone7555]

Really cool!

[@saudi7in7usa]

it is a fantastic demonstration. THANK YOU.

[@lupeemail91]

superb video

[@sunnyd476]

Great video sir.

[@imcool00011]

Very good work

[@ProWeeziiTho]

This is pretty cool

[@JernejBarbic]

Very nice video. Informative, clever. Good job. :-)

[@zephyrdelight3411]

Fascinating

[@odd1284]

Love dis man my favorite

[@gnaneshda8294]

Great information.

[@Arborsci]

Glad it was helpful!

[@427AKASH]

lovely.

[@rajkumardadge1209]

Very nice

[@Chr0nalis]

nice demonstration

[@davidasimmons]

Nice James.

[@engineerated5627]

Cool stuff!

[@lg4667]

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[@chorcor888]

AMAZING THANKS

[@ricci1729]

very nice... thank you ver much

[@Psychobob]

I didn't realize I wanted to know so much about tuning forks. Lol.

[@andyr562]

GOOD JOB!!

[@GurbeyDemirturk]

Thanks

[@S-MKim]

very clever!

[@JamaaLS]

This is special elite.

[@johnmcgarvie9581]

Hello I have a theory. And I'm wondering if you could help me out.can you mount the 2 ends into a block of stone and get a constant frequency?

[@RainAngel111]

this is so cool!

[@andysummersthxcinemaandmyc7748]

Magnificent science video demonstrations where I'm looking for some answers solutions to a laser sound project that I'm trying at home with few trails and errors now and then.

[@horus2779]

What about the Musical pillars of India or the 3 pointed tuning fork of Sumeria

[@mohdshabaz6627]

its very interesting

[@trancehi]

Apparently UK speed guns (against speeding cars) have to be tested by a similar method. I'm still trying to work that one out how it calibrates with tuning forks.

[@ashas8470]

Wonder of experiments

[@yashpall]

super.....

[@JohnLRice]

Excellent! :-)

[@SteveFlatEarth]

Would it be considered a free amplification of energy if you had thousands of tuning forks resonating at the same frequency. Strike one and the other 999 will amplify that wave quite a bit right?

[@neon_one]

unrelated question but why do flickering power strip lights stop flickering when you shine a blacklight on them?

[@FinancialConsultdotcodotza]

Great video, however...using the end of the tuning fork on a subject multiply the vibration into a higher octave than the two forks

[@MrTravisDCook]

yes!!!

[@donnydarko9472]

I've done an expirement with my 128hz tuning fork and a 20euro analog compass. It gone crazy around over and over. What is the explanation ?

[@pcpatel01]

What is the frequency of an earth quake on different scales? can it help detect earthquakes way before they cause mass destruction.

[@xtruma]

Fantastic video...enlightened me a bit more after seeing two separated objetc beeing linked together by their resonance frequency... Science is indeed magic that has actually been proven...still have a long way to go to prove all those supernatural stuff that's going on around us though :) keep it up guys, besides great discoveries have all been found by mistake, so keep on experimenting and who knows, i might even be the one to make such a groundbreaking discovery :D

[@dominiclovato4565]

So what are you trying to say about tuning forks?, Or you trying to say frequency waves can bend light and travel through air?

[@davidcraigthor]

I want to see a tuning fork as the focal point of a parabolic reflector or 2 opposing reflectors.

[@jonsel1005]

So what if you put metal wire's to both of your tuning forks that are on the same frequency will the wire's make it vibrate longer?

[@parzatka51]

How do you do the experiment where you strike a tuning fork, touch it to the rim of a glass, and the liquid in the glass turns into a solid block?

[@emerlander]

Dude, you should have more views. That's an awesome video!

[@poppet229]

What would happen if you have have a tuning fork on a pole and the schist disc ? Also are you aware that in Egypt their are two tuning forks side by side with a price of string between them

[@johnpmilheiser5991]

Can tuning forks be used to produce electricity? I was thinking that if I connected the right 2 tuning forks to 2 wires and took one wire and put it threw the coil of another wire it would produce a current flow. Am I right?

[@ebony61899]

thank you, very cool kanye!

[@rafaelsantospeixoto]

Hey, nice video! What unity of measurement is h? You said that h*(0.3) = meters, but I've never heard of it.

[@UbernoobtuberPC]

Hey, I know I'm like 6 years late to this video, but who's trying to bet me money that the timbre of the sound produced by the laser changes based on the color of the laser you choose.

[@momjosh12CARTOONS]

4:37 start up sound for mac?

[@AbdolazimHasseli]

Hi, I wonder if it can be used to create ultrasonic waves. Can it?