Amateur equipment can reproduce textbook acoustics measurements accurately

Evidence

We made the claim in the preface that laptops empower readers to conduct sophisticated experiments at little additional expense. Here, we give a useful example, done in half an hour with a laptop, earbuds, a bottle cap, and a length of metal tubing from a curtain rod. Is this publishable-quality work? No. Is it very informative and essentially correct? Yes. — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 1446

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