Sound and Ultrasound Articles from Scientific American

Readings from Scientific American

Sound and Ultrasound
5/54	55	"Ultrasonics." Henry; discussion of the applications of ultrasound. Little information is given on the use of ultrasonics in medicine due to the lack of knowledge at that time.
5/56	120	"Heart Sounds." V. McKusick; the use of new electronic instruments to monitor heart sounds.
1/62	36	"Sonic Boom." Wilson; production of the sonic boom and the resulting shock waves.
2/63	109	"Shock Waves and High Temperatures." McChesney; Provides detailed explanation of supersonic pressure disturbances in a gas and their production in the laboratory.
6/63	60	"Kilomegacycle Ultrasonics." Dransfeld; Discusses the unique interactions of ultrasonic waves with matter and other forms of energy.
11/63	78	"Architectural Acoustics." Knudsen; How acoustical knowledge is applied to the construction of music halls and auditoriums.
3/65	82	"Acoustic Methods in Psychiatry." Peter F. Ostwald. Frequency analysis of patient verbalizations used as a diagnostic tool.
4/65	94	See Category 9.
12/65	89	"The Physics of the Piano." E. Donnell Blackham.
12/67	92	"The Vibrating String of the Pythagoreans." Helm; How the Greeks and those who followed them utilized the relations among musical tones that bind science to music.
1/69	98	See Category 13.
10/69	36	"Acoustical Holography." A. F. Matherall; using sound wave interference similarly to light.
11/69	127	"How Birds Sing." C. H. Greenewalt; sound-wave analysis gives clues to the mechanism.
1/70	40	"Aerodynamic Whistles." Chanaud. They include not only organs and flutes but also oil burners and fluidic devices.
7/70	84	"The Love Song of the Fruit Fly." Bennet-Clark and Ewing. It is a tiny hum that males of each species modulate in a unique way.
8/70	116	"The Amateur Scientist." Stong; devices for listening to sounds both in water and in the solid earth.
10/73	94	"Auditory Beats in the Brain." by Gerald Oster. Beats heard in earphones are clues to how the brain processes sound information.
3/74	84	"The Cry of the Human Infant." Ostwald and Peltzman. Sound spectra may be useful in detecting infant disorders.
3/77	82	"The Acoustics of the Singing Voice." J. Sundberg; how the sounds are created and controlled.
5/78	98	"Ultrasound in Medical Diagnosis." C. B. Devey and P. N. T. Wells; a braod-based introduction including imaging and Doppler techniques; impressive picture of triplets' skulls in uterus.
10/78	179	"Some Whispering Galleries are Simply Sound Reflectors, But Others are More Mysterious." (Amateur Scientist) J. Walker; St. Paul's Cathedral in London is one example.
1/79	118	"The Coupled Motions of Piano Strings." Weinrich; new information nicely presented.
10/79	62	"The Acoustic Microscope." C. F. Quate; a system with resolution comparable to visible light microscopes.
10/81	170	"The Acoustics of Violin Plates." Carleen Maley Hutchins; vibrations of top and back pieces of the violin are examined.

Dick Piccard revised this file (http://ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu/~piccard/scientam/sound.html) on July 15, 1997.

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