Saturday, 15 October 2016

acoustics - Harmonic frequencies of a guitar string


I'm studying harmonic frequency at the moment but I'm just a bit confused about something. How are more than one different frequencies able to be produced from plucking a guitar string (fundamental frequency, 2nd harmonic, 3rd harmonic etc.)? Isn't this impossible for a guitar to vibrate at more than one frequency at the same time?




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