The Coke can acoustic lens, surrounded by speakers, can focus sound waves to a space 1/25th the size of a wavelength. Image credit: Fabrice Lemoult (PhysOrg.com) -- When trying to focus sound waves ...
Linear spreading of a wave packet or a Gaussian beam is a fundamental effect known in evolution of quantum state and propagation of optical/acoustic beams. The rate of spreading is determined by the ...
THE experimental results reported in a previous communication 1 confirm the existence of several maxima for the second- and the third-order diffraction lines at oblique incidence and at low sound ...