Re: Sonic info & links

Bill Wallace ( (no email) )
Sun, 13 Sep 1998 02:43:04 -0400

In the early 1930s Frenzel and Schultes discovered that photographic plates
became "fogged" when submerged in water exposed to high frequency sound.
More recent experiments have succeeded in suspending a single luminous
pulsating bubble in a standing wave acoustic field, visible in an undarkened
room. Generally sonoluminescence is light emission from small cavitating
bubbles of air or other gas in water or other fluids, produced when the
fluid is acted upon by intense high frequency sound waves. The mechanism is
not completely understood, but very high pressures and temperatures are
thought to be produced at the centre of the collapsing bubbles.

Why could these cavitating bubbles not be done directly in air instead of in
water?

-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Bastian <tbastian@dmv.com>
To: keelynet@DallasTexas.net <keelynet@DallasTexas.net>
Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 11:56 AM
Subject: Sonic info & links

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>FireOrgan
>http://www.exploratorium.edu/AIDS/trimpin.state.html
>http://www.islandnet.com/~ianc/dm/16/162.html
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>Shuman Resonance. This is the frequency at which the Earth's magnetic
>field resonates when excited by a powerful enough force. The first one I
>learned about was lightning. I then looked further into this phenomenon
>and found that tornadoes also cause this resonance to be excited, but
>surprisingly enough in the air. Just before a tornado forms an 8Hz tone
>is heard. This was discovered by a group of geophysicists who were using
>listening devices for detecting, of all things, earthquakes, which also
>happen to cause a resonance effect of 8Hz, both electromagnetically and
>acoustically. Volcanoes also tend to excite this resonance before
>erupting.
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>Physics of Open Ended Tubes
>http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/3941/oetubes.html
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>Physics of Closed End Tubes
>http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/3941/closedend.html
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