compression wave in a sentence
Examples
- :As far as I know a compression wave is the kind you get when slap a fatty human thigh and watch it ripple.
- With a small defect angle and a low speed you would get compression waves radiating outward from the collision plane, like an earthquake.
- Acoustic problems always require allowing compressibility, since sound waves are compression waves involving changes in pressure and density of the medium through which they propagate.
- In solids, the compression waves are analogous to those in fluids, depending on compressibility, density, and the additional factor of shear modulus.
- The impact produces a compression wave that travels down the pile at a constant wave speed ( similarly to what happens in high strain dynamic testing ).
- When the compression waves reach areas of high acoustic impedance mismatch ( such as the opposite side of the target ), tension waves reflect back and create spalling.
- If an explosive charge is placed on a target, the sudden release of energy causes compression waves to propagate through the target radially from the point-charge contact.
- Weak shocks are isentropic and that the isentrope represents the path through which the material is loaded from the initial to final states by a compression wave with converging characteristics.
- When compared to the compression wave, the shear wave is approximately one-half ( but may vary significantly from this estimate ) the velocity depending on the medium.
- Human ears are evolved to recognize certain frequencies of these compression waves as " sound " .-2-16 12 : 29, 16 May 2007 ( UTC)