Question

If you blow across the open end of a soda bottle and produce a tone of 250 Hz, what will be the frequency of the next harmonic heard if you blow much harder?
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Answer 1

Answer:

Generally, the lowest overtone for a pipe open at one end and closed would be at  y / 4  where y represents lambda, the wavelength.

Since F (frequency) = c / y       Speed/wavelength

F2 / F1 = y1 / y2      because c is the same in both cases

F2 = y1/y2 * F1

F2 = 3 F1 = 750 /sec

Note that L = y1 / 4 = 3 y2 / 4 for these wavelengths to fit in the pipe

and y1 = 3 y2