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Acoustic impedance is the density of a material multiplied by the speed of sound in the material.
Knowing these two values allows use to calculate how much of th...

A piezoelectric crystal makes use of the peizoelectric effect. This is the production of a voltage when mechanical stress is applied across the material. This occurs only in materials ...

The Doppler Effect is the strectching and compressing of waves caused by the movement of the source. Put more simply, when an object emits a sound - say a van beeping its horn it produces a sound of a ...

There are two postulates of special relativity:

1. The laws of physics are invariant in all inertial frames of reference.

What ...

Charged particles are fired into a magnetic field (perpendicular to the motion of the particles). Using Fleming’s left hand rule, a magnetic force acts centripetally – such that the charged particles e...