If a small opening is made in a container or a window opened in a room the air can oscillate with a frequency that depends on the size of the container or room. As shown above, for a string the overto...If a small opening is made in a container or a window opened in a room the air can oscillate with a frequency that depends on the size of the container or room. As shown above, for a string the overtones are given by fn=v/2((n/L)2)1/2 where L is the length of the string, v is the speed of a wave on the string and n is the mode number.
