Physics is about studying how the universe works, and since you're in it, it's really about understanding you and the world you live in. Hopefully you'll find this very interesting! Seek to improve your learning by polishing each portfolio objective, each online text assignment, and then by noticing physics in your life!

Friday, April 10, 2015

Why do sonic waves go boom? How can sound shatter a glass?

Can you explain these phenomena?
Image result for doppler effect   Image result for glass shattering sound and more neat demos of resonance (or beat frequencies?)



This video gives some good info about sonic booms, (but they misspelled Propagate, sigh)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L38joISddbA

For you future theoretical physicists, here's a neat simulation that shows how wave phenomena can explain orbital levels of electrons (remember that 1s2, 2p6,2p2 stuph?)
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/hydrogen-atom

And one more cool example of a shock wave/sonic boom from a rocket passing Mach 1
https://youtu.be/p0xY69kUtdU?t=1m36s