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Alarms and Sirens
Listening to stars twinkle
How does auto-tune pitch correction work?
Enigma of the Singing Dunes
Could we ever go back in time?
The rise and fall of voice
Keep your ears peeled
How do speakers work?
How do no-fly zones work?
Weird rainbows
Time Twins
Windbelt - Reinventing wind power
Are we really all made of stardust?
The Radioactive Orchestra
A brief history of space
All about... Quantum Computing
Airplane In Wind
The cross-country navigation of an aircraft involves the vector addition of relative velocities since the resultant ground speed is the vector sum of the airspeed and the wind speed.
Maxwell Speed Distribution
The speed distribution for the molecules of an ideal gas is given by Maxwell's speed distribution
Relative Velocity
Shows a simulation for crossing a river in a boat. Speed of river, boat angle and speed can be changed.
Biosonar - Seeing with Sound
A good site on how animals such as bats or dolphins see with sound (also known as echolocation ).
Refraction of Sound
An interesting page on how sound is refracted and examples of the effect this causes.
Microphone
Microphones are transducers which detect sound signals and produce an electrical image of the sound