Re: pinhole wave question

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From: Raleigh McLemore (raleighmclemore@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Apr 28 2002 - 09:45:02 PDT 

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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:45:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Raleigh McLemore <raleighmclemore@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: pinhole wave question

The questions about frequency vs. amplitude in made me
think that I've never got one in my class before,
probably cause I'm doing elementary. The explainations
made me think that, not having a great ear for music,
I sometimes have trouble telling if a "louder" note is
a note of a different "frequency". Part of this may be
my trombone playing daughter who I need to be at least
in the next room to listen to, although if she is
reading this she should know that she plays with a
sublime brillance that I cannot describe. In any case,
she holds the slide in exactly the same place and
blows louder, and by god it is louder, possibly as
loud as squeezing a seven year old razor back hog!

Seeing waves makes sense to me because waves of
various heights can pass at the same frequency. Last
weekend my wife and I were a Chimney Rock enjoying the
wildflowers and I watched waves get focused on the tip
of the point while I counted frequency (it seemed so
regular). You could see different amplitude easily by
submerged rocks becoming uncovered or not. Probably
not scientific (given my track record possibly not
right!), but I'm afraid ocean waves make a lot more
sense to me than electronic waves.

With firm handshake,
Raleigh

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