Title: Bez tytulu slajdu
 1O n t h e T r a c k o f M o d e r n 
 P h y s i c s 
All is trembling
Harmonize glass
Napoleon made in Egypt two invaluable 
discoveries the basalt plate, known as la 
Rosette" and the professor of analysis of 
Polytechnic Ècole Jean-Baptist-Joseph Fourier.
It is not easy to obtain a simple monochromatic 
sound. Only one good wine glass can produce it. 
If wine is added, the song changes.
Wine glass (125cm3) f1290 Hz
1290 Hz
J.-B.-J. Fourier (1768-1830). 
The first, containing one of the decrees of 
Ptolemeus V(196 D.C.) registered in hieroglyphes, 
demotic and Greek allowed in 1822 J.F. 
Champollion to decode the Egyptian writing.
Big cognac glass (4000 cm3) f290Hz
290 Hz
La Pierre de Rosette, British Museum
Narrow and isolated peak is called delta of 
Dirac. Paul Adrien Maurice was English and owes 
his beautiful name to the mother, who was 
Suisse. Other that its "delta", it formulated a 
quantum equation, from which in 1930 the 
existence deduced from a positive electron. The 
positron was discovered in the cosmic rays in 
1932.
The analysis of Fourier makes it possible to 
decode the components of an unspecified periodic 
function.
Transormé de Fourier et transformé inverse
Transformation of Fourier "seeks" if in the 
periodic function (as a vibration) are specific 
frequencies the periodic function of period 2p 
is developed in series
Magic flute
A simple flute produces a very complex sound, 
with various harmonic components, according to 
whether the flute remains closed or open. The its 
characteristic is called "stamp".
The black curve has two components sin2x and 
sin(3x0.2) it is superimposed with the pink 
sinusoid the two periods, with the orange 
sinusoid the three periods.
During the same time Pierre-Simon de Laplace 
lived. Recommended by Alembert became in 1773 
member of the French Academy of Science, and in 
1796 professor of LÉcole Normale in Paris. 
An oscillation which is propagated in space (e.g. 
along x axis), becomes "a wave". ? (x,t)A sin 
(?t  kx), where the period is T2p/? and the 
wavelength is ?2p/k. The sound is a simple 
example of wave. The human ear is able to 
recognize the sound of a particular individual 
musical instrument in the symphony in full 
orchestratration. Ear makes it by that an 
analysis of Fourier. There is 100 years since 
the analysis of Fourier was done via complicated 
mechanical devices masses oscillating or sphere 
vacuums, for the sound. Today one analyzes the 
sound with a simple computer and the virtual 
oscilloscope (http//polly.phys.msu.su/zeld/oscil
l.html) 
P.-S. de Laplace (1749-1827)
First he made assumptions on the formation of the 
solar system starting from a nebula. The 
existence of stable particular points between 
Jupiter and the Sun were confirmed from the 
astronomical observations only recently (1996). 
Sound analyzer of König (Charles University, 
Prague)
Harmonic analyzer of de Sir. W. Thomson
Virtual oscilloscope
Laplaces transformation is generalized approach 
of Fourier each function, not necessarily 
periodic can be substituted. For transformed of 
Laplace are delighted the electric theorists of 
circuits, considering which it makes it possible 
to solve complicated differential equations. 
 These small African artisanal animals make the 
same operation as the complicated analyzer of Sir 
Thomson and H. Helmholtz they raise the 
vibrations, each one at its particular own 
frequency! 
The oscillating towers are in front of the 
Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Berlin
4/1