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Cédric Beaume

Researcher

Oct 16, 2026

6:46
How were they ended up being associated with his name?
6:48
I would say that he's discovered them, yes, but accidentally.
6:51
It's, it's one of these great examples of scientific curiosity leading to, to completely new world in, in science.
6:56
So the, the initial problem was that, that he was investigating was, uh, that of the Chladni plates.
7:02
So there was this German, uh, physicist called Ernst Chladni who in the early 1800s was playing around with thin plates, and he was putting some grains of sand on the thin plates.
7:12
And he was making them vibrate.
7:14
He was actually taking, uh, a violin bow, and he was rubbing the violin bow against the side of the plate.
8:53
The, uh, because where would we see a Faraday wave?

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