# harmonics
Harmonics is what happens when a vibration doesn't just move at one frequency but stacks whole-number multiples of it on top of each other — the reason a violin string and a flute playing the same note still sound completely different. This tag collects the site's simulations for exploring that idea directly: build up any waveform term by term in Fourier Series and the phasor-based Fourier Series — Interactive Phasor & Harmonic Decomposition Simulator, pluck a string and watch its overtones in String Physics and String Vibration, or see resonant modes form inside a tube in Standing Waves in Pipes. Musical Scales connects the maths back to music, and the article Timbre: The Colour of Sound explains why harmonic content is what makes instruments recognisable.
Found: 6 simulations · 1 articles
🧪 Simulations (6)
📖 Articles (1)
Simulations in this topic include Fourier Series, String Physics — Vibrating String & Harmonics, Standing Waves in Pipes, Fourier Series — Interactive Phasor & Harmonic Decomposition Simulator, String Vibration — Standing Waves and Harmonics and Musical Scales.
🔎 Facts
• 6 simulations and 1 article carry the harmonics tag.
• Two of them, the plain Fourier Series and the phasor-based Fourier Series simulator, tackle the same decomposition idea from different visual angles.
• String Physics and String Vibration both model a plucked/vibrating string and its overtone series.
• Standing Waves in Pipes is the only sim here dealing with harmonics in an air column rather than on a string.
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