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Wheatstone's Rods

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Flexible rods the period of vibration of which in two planes at right angles are in some exact ratio to one another. When one end of such a rod is fixed, the free end describes in vibrating the corresponding Lissajous figure. So called because devised by Sir Charles Wheatstone.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Wheatstone's Rods'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​w/wheatstones-rods.html. 1828.
 
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