| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 47, Number 5, September I 1999
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| Page(s) | 531 - 537 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1999-00420-8 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
On "hearing the shape of drums": An experimental study using vibrating smectic films
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud, Bât. 510 - 91405 Orsay, France
Received:
28
September
1998
Accepted:
1
July
1999
Sunada's theorem provides a method for building pairs of drums of different shapes which possess the same spectrum of eigenfrequencies. Our study concerns the isospectrality of a family of pairs of shapes built from seven triangles. We model 2D drums using smectic films, which transverse vibrations in vacuum obey the Helmholtz wave equation with Dirichlet boundary condition. Our experiment allows us to completely characterize the eigenmodes: spectrum and eigenfunctions. We experimentally check that only the permutational symmetries inherent in the building schemes of the two isospectral shapes are relevant for isospectrality.
PACS: 03.65.Ge – Solutions of wave equations: bound states / 43.40.Dx – Vibrations of membranes and plates / 68.15.+e – Liquid thin films
© EDP Sciences, 1999
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