IN an experiment performed in this laboratory on the determination of surface tensions of liquids by the method of ripples, a tuning fork, provided with a dipper and slits on the two prongs, was used ...

THE tuning-fork when its number of double vibrations, to and from in a second, or briefly its frequency, has been ascertained, is a most convenient instrument for measuring minute divisions of time.

A tuning fork (mounted on a resonance box) is made to resonate when a second identical tuning fork is rung nearby. This is beacause the first tuning fork's driving frequncy is the same as the second ...