Where physics and guitar collide!

littlegreenman

A bit old, but a good little vid from a schoolmate...

thermionic

I work at the same place as Dr Lewney, he gave a free talk just before Christmas a couple of years ago - it was great! Turns out he was an undergrad in the same physics department when I was a postdoctoral researcher there, so we probably crossed paths in the corridors many years ago. He did a PhD at Cardiff University where people have studied vibrational modes in acoustic guitars and that kind of thing, although I don’t know if his was actually guitar-related.

littlegreenman

thermionic said:

I work at the same place as Dr Lewney, he gave a free talk just before Christmas a couple of years ago - it was great! Turns out he was an undergrad in the same physics department when I was a postdoctoral researcher there, so we probably crossed paths in the corridors many years ago. He did a PhD at Cardiff University where people have studied vibrational modes in acoustic guitars and that kind of thing, although I don’t know if his was actually guitar-related.

Pretty sure it was lazer holography to examine the vibration of acoustic guitar tops. He's the only person I know who has his own Farriday cage, and suit of armour!

thermionic

When I was at Edinburgh University I briefly met a guy who'd just joined the acoustics group from his PhD in Cardiff in exactly that, so I guessed Mark's was in something similar. I don't see him around much (I'm in a different group and I think he works mainly from home) but we could talk guitars and physics for hours probably.

ESBlonde

"A bit old, but a good little vid from a schoolmate.."

Shocking @littlegreenman. I never realised you went to school.

;-)