Penn State University is working and hoping to damage the ears of many visitors. That, anyway, seems to be the gist of this report by Inside Science News Service: Penn State’s Audible Assault How the Nittany Lions are using the science of acoustics to help crank up home field crowd noise Loud stadiums help win […]
Tag: Acoustics
The repetitive physics of Om
Two Indian scientists are wielding sophisticated mathematics to dissect and analyse the traditional meditation chanting sound “Om”. The Om team has published six monographs in academic journals. These plumb certain acoustic subtleties of Om, which these researchers say is “the divine sound”. Om has many variations. In a study published in the International Journal of […]
Sound: Apple crispness, crunchiness
“Sound generated during eating of apples plays important role in its texture evaluation by consumers.” A finding which has recently been backed up a Polish research team at the Institute of Agrophysics, Lublin, working in conjunction with the Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture, at Skierniewice. The investigators employed recently developed Contact Acoustic Emission (AE) […]
Lamentable deer-whistle findings
Investigator G.J. Reynolds alerts us to an alert about deficiencies of deer-collision avoidance devices: “Analysis and effectiveness of deer whistles for motor vehicles: frequencies, levels, and animal threshold responses,” Peter M. Scheifele [pictured here], David G. Browning and Lesa M. Collins-Scheifel, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America [ARLO], vol. 4, no. 13, July 2003. […]