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Prof. Dr. Dirk Schieborn

Lecture Mathematics 2 for Industrial Engineering · Reutlingen University

Fourier · Episode 7

Where you pluck shapes the sound

Fourier · Episode 7

Where you pluck shapes the sound

Prof. Dr. Dirk Schieborn

Lecture Mathematics 2 for Industrial Engineering · Reutlingen University

A guitar mixes its overtones like 1/n², a violin like 1/n. And wherever the finger plucks, every vibration with a node exactly there stays silent.

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Where you pluck shapes the sound

Prof. Dr. Dirk SchiebornLecture Mathematics 2 for Industrial Engineering · Reutlingen University

NewOct 16, 2026 · 1 chapter

Plucked, the overtones fall like 1/n², bowed like 1/n, and overtones with a node at the plucking point vanish. Four instruments, four recipes: the circle back to episode 1 closes.

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