Multiple Choice
Some musicians actually play the saw because it makes so many rich and interesting sounds. In class your instructor demonstrates the saw, which has a spring - like surface. The sounds it makes are indeed interesting but no pure tones are produced because the surface
A) cannot experience non-uniform accelerations (accelerations that vary from place to place) .
B) creates overtones that are not integer multiples of their fundamental frequencies.
C) is not a harmonic oscillator.
D) is not uniform.
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