• Question: can you feel sounds

    Asked by anon-353946 on 30 Mar 2023.
    • Photo: Lucien Heurtier

      Lucien Heurtier answered on 30 Mar 2023:

      Yes. Sound is a mechanical wave, so it is basically like wind, it is air pushing around it, and you can feel it. I don’t know if you have ever been quite close to a speaker during a concert, but some low frequencies would literally make your body vibrate (which is not good for your ears and heart).

      An extreme example of sound is an Earthquake: that’s basically sound at extremely low frequency but with a very powerful amplitude: needless to say that you may feel it…

      Passing the wall of sound is also something one can feel. In the old time, when planes were going faster than the speed of sound, the bang that they would emit was so strong that it could break bird eggs or windows. With time, they managed to make less noisy planes, luckily 😉

      I hope I answered your question well enough! Feel free to ask more, and don’t forget…

      … to vote for your favorite scientist 😉

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