pyrotechnics

I recently committed myself to the goal, before the weekend was out, of creating a device entirely from bacon and using it to cut a steel pan in half. My initial attempts were failures, but I knew success was within reach when I was able to ignite and melt the pan using seven beef sticks and a cucumber.

The "Ruben's Tube" demonstration shown in the video gives a dramatic and visual representation of sound waves creating standing waves in a pipe. Whether or not you light the gas, once the speaker is on, there are sound waves traveling back and forth along the tube. Sound waves consist of alternating regions of high and low pressure. But by igniting the gas in the tube and allowing it to escape out of the holes cut into the top, we can see where the pressure is high and where it is low.