Question submitted by Zachary Gramke’s fourth-grade class at Two Mile Prairie Elementary School. Both light and sound are waves; light is an electromagnetic wave, and sound is a mechanical wave. When ...
Chen Shen, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Rowan University, uses acoustic science to spin and manipulate sound waves for micro applications including miniature robotics and new ...
Nature: On the Impulses of Compound Sound Waves and their Mechanical Transmission through the Ear
On the Impulses of Compound Sound Waves and their Mechanical Transmission through the Ear
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - The universe is full of waves, and they are not all created equally. Some are mechanical, and others are electromagnetic, even though they are all energy! Not all waves are created ...
It’s a question I’m sure was keeping you up at night: can you make an object spin with a sound wave? The answer, generally speaking, used to be no. Now, though, mechanical engineers have taken a look ...
EurekAlert!: Twisting sound: Scientists discover a new way to control mechanical vibrations in metamaterial
Twisting sound: Scientists discover a new way to control mechanical vibrations in metamaterial
Acoustics is the branch of science that studies the propagation of sound and vibrational waves. Audible acoustic waves are ubiquitous in our everyday experience: they form the basis of verbal human ...
The Washington Post: Sound waves can be used to levitate and move objects, study says
Sound waves can be used to levitate and move objects, study says
Ars Technica: How to make a sound wave spin? Hit it with a pipe