# Bessel functions define drum vibration patterns

The sources highlight that while different boundary conditions (fixed versus forced) can be applied to a drumhead, it is the zero-displacement requirement of the fixed boundary condition that forces the resulting standing waves to adhere to the highly structured, mathematically defined patterns generated by the zeros of Bessel functions.

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