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Drops-of-Q t1_j87btoe wrote
Reply to comment by DrDisastor in Wedding Planner in Ukraine War Has Adapted to Curfews, Blackouts, the determination to keep on living and to be happy is so heartwarming. by TheHuanWhoKnocks
Many (maybe most) European countries do
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Reply to comment by Trackmaster15 in Why Roman Egypt was such a strange province by oni64
That is the sort of question any decent historian or archeologist ponder.
But I'll also say that it is more in popular science that Egypt is the greatest civilization of all time. That goes back to when the ancient Egyptian culture was rediscovered. It was the first to be studied scholarly to any degree which is why Egyptology was an entire field of study, but not Indus-Valley-Civilizationology
Drops-of-Q t1_iydvhr8 wrote
Sound is simply vibrating air. These vibrations propagate as waves. The higher the frequency of that vibration, the higher the pitch of the sound, but the shorter the wavelengths.
The vibrations here are caused by the splashing of the water. These vibrations have tons of different pitches, but when you have air vibrating in an enclosed space the sound waves reverberate within that space which amplifies certain pitches, namely the ones with wavelengths that match the size of the space. As the space for the air to resonate gets smaller, the shorter the wavelengths are that get amplified.
This is exactly how brass instruments work. When you move the slide of a trombone out the tube gets longer so you get a longer wavelength and thus a lower note.
That's the basic explanation, but here is a more advanced explanation of why the wavelength is dependant on the space it can vibrate in, even when it has an open end as a glass has. Many differently shaped rooms have different effects on timbre and pitch. When we talk about this we tend to simplify it by talking about a tube that is open in one end, which conveniently is exactly what most glasses are.
The bottom of the glass is where the air vibrates the least freely, so here it forms what's called a node. You can imagine it as the ends of a jumping rope that barely move, while the center where there is most movement, is what's called the antinode.
If the tube of air were sealed in both ends there would be a node in both ends and an antinode (or several) in the middle just like the jumping rope, but when the tube is open in one and there will always be an antinode in that end where the air can vibrate the most freely.
The fundamental pitch of a tube is the biggest wavelength that can "fit" in it. For a tube that's sealed in both ends that is simply a wavelength the exact length of the tube, but for a tube that's open in one end the fundamental wavelength is twice the length. That's because you have an antinode in one end so it's almost as if only "half the sound wave" is inside the tube.
For a closed tube, the overtones of the fundamental simply have 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5 etc. the wavelength, because you'll always have a node in either end, but you can have more nodes and antinodes throughout the tube. But for a tube with an open end they are 1/1.5, 1/2.5, 1/3.5 etc. because you'll always have an antinode in one end.
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Reply to comment by BurnItNow in ELI5: why can you hear when a glass is being filled up with water? by RestlessARBIT3R
I think you're confusing this with playing on wine glasses. This is not the case here
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Reply to comment by Anton_AA in Lake Sorvagsvatn, Faroe Islands [OC] [1800x1494] by Anton_AA
Faroe Islands is also Fær Island Islands
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Lake Sorvag Lake
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Reply to comment by Aseyhe in Does the age of the universe depends on where you are? by _bidooflr_
Can you also explain why the age of the universe is dependant on position with the Newtonian gauge?