project 1

This project did not turn out ideally, to say the least.  However, we did learn a lot and got some unexpected results that were kind of cool.  The speakers, even with an amp did not produce enough vibration to make the non newtonian liquid do anything other than sit there.  Since that was not going to work, we started experimenting with other materials.  We tried salt, chalk dust, and water.  The best one was water, the sound waves created really interesting ripple patterns.  We then tried dust on the water to try to emphasize the ripples and that worked surprisingly well, out of all the tests we did.  The dust swirled around the water being moved by the music.