The Coke can acoustic lens, surrounded by speakers, can focus sound waves to a space 1/25th the size of a wavelength. Image credit: Fabrice Lemoult (PhysOrg.com) -- When trying to focus sound waves ...

When exposed to stress and strain, materials can display a wide range of different properties. By using sound waves, scientists have begun to explore fundamental stress behaviors in a crystalline ...

THE experimental results reported in a previous communication 1 confirm the existence of several maxima for the second- and the third-order diffraction lines at oblique incidence and at low sound ...

So far we have only considered sound in isolation and we have seen that sound has velocity, frequency, wavelength and reduces in intensity in proportion to the square of the distance from the source.

IN a recent letter in NATURE 1, D. Brown described an ingenious and simple method of obtaining acoustic spectra, namely, by using a strip of 'variable-density' sound film as a diffraction grating for ...