Music and the Making of Modern Science

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Figure 18.4
Two examples of resonance: (a) resonance of a wine glass at its natural frequency f 0 = 454.73 Hz, plotting the
amplitude of the glass's motion versus the frequency of the sound exciting it ( ♪ sound example 18.2); (b) reso-
nance showing the detection by the ATLAS collaboration at CERN of Z neutral intermediate bosons (mass 90
GeV) by their decay into an electron-positron pair, plotting the number of detected events versus the invariant
mass-energy of the observed electron-positron pair.