Physics Of Vinyl Records

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Physics of vinyl records.

At first the discs were commonly made from shellac with earlier records having a fine abrasive. It will create the exact ups and downs on the vinyl record surface. Shop for vinyl cds and more from physics at the discogs marketplace. Though his machine looked different than modern record players it operated on the same principal.

The first functioning record player called a phonograph was made by thomas edison in the late 19th century. People in the former soviet union made records out of discarded x ray film they played well but didn t last long. Get youtube without the ads. Back to the future.

A phonograph record also known as a gramophone record especially in british english or simply a record is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove. Let s say two people with different voice timbers say i like vinyl records with the same level of voice. In this post we ll go over a number of factors that may determine the value of a particular. The shape of the groove mimics the shape of the pressure wave just like the plots i ve shown you above.

Engineer amanda ghasshaei who has a b s. In physics made records out of wood acrylic and paper. Sound is recorded on a vinyl record by copying the shape of the sound wave onto a groove on the record. Various materials will do this better than others.

Vinyl not only holds the imprint of the sound wave well it s also cheap and durable. The resolution is given by the recording device s precision when it cuts the groove. Establishing vinyl records value is an inexact science and there are a number of factors that go into determining whether a given record is something that will bring a lot of money from a collector or something that would best be used as a place mat.