effect of sonic boom in our environment
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Sonic booms are audible shock waves in air, and they generate large amounts of sound energy.  They commonly occur when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier.\n\nOne issue involving shockwaves and the environment is the large amount of noise pollution they produce.  An example of this can be found in the story of the Concorde (a passenger plane that could break the sound barrier).  Concordes were used only for over-ocean flights, as the sonic booms they produced would have caused noise pollution in overland flights.
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The most noticable would be CAR FUMES! Look there are as many cars as pets in the USA, I swear some of them just let too much pollution! You don't need a detail answer, all you need is imagination, just look at all the cars, factories, machines, trucks and every single one of those! They affect the climate dramatically, without even mentioning the military and nuclear weapons being produced there! \n\nUSA is in deep growing danger!!!
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Yes, we have affected and been affecting our Mother Earth largely!\nEvery road disturbs the natural ways of animal movements.\nOur use of certain chemicals destroy sections of the atmosphere.\nCreation of cement cities lowers the natural beauty!\nNuclear tests are changing regions.\nProfessional fishing eliminates kinds of sea life.\nand so on!
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BEEP BEEP!!\n\nThunder, lightning and rain, specifically:\nhttp://www.sounddogs.com/subcategories.asp?Type=1&CategoryID=1045  \n\nOther sound effects sites:\nhttp://www.webplaces.com/html/sounds.htm\n\nhttp://www.sounddogs.com/catsearch.asp?Type=1&gclid=CJzHrISV5YUCFSVoSAodBHulRA\n\nhttp://www.onlysoundeffects.com/Results.aspx?query=Sound%20Effects&sessionid=5oupsl45c1ytkgrw5p5qiiji&cc=us&ns=1
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Compared to Krakatoa, the space shuttle would appear to be a point source of sound energy.  The "inverse square law" does not work for a wall of sound or a wall of light or even for a wall of radiation compared to point sources.  Gravity exhibits compliance with the inverse square law only if you consider mass to be concentrated at a point for calculations.  For example the earliest land surveys of northern India contained original significant errors because the attraction of Mt. Everest for the surveyor's plumb bob was neglected.  The loudest observed sound that I have read of was the blast from a Saturn rocket in which the sound was so intense that the condensations were separated by rarefactions that approached a pure vacuum.  You needed distance and ear protection but it was not even heard in upper New York state!
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When cold dry air from the North, meet warm moist air from the south...\n\nThunder (which is the sound) comes from lightning (which is the flash).\n\nLightning is extremely hot (4 times the temp of surface of sun) it heat the air around it.  \n\nThe heating causing the air to expand (remember PV=nRT) the rapid expansion causes a pressure wave (remember PV=nRT sorry I had to).  \n\nThat pressure wave (sound is a pressure wave) is so intense we hear the "boom" when the pressure wave hits us.
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If you could hear the sounds of the sun it would mean the void of outer space is not a void but filled with air or an atmosphere.  Sound requires air to travel, i.e. sound generates sound waves or pressure differentials in the atmosphere.  Therefore if all space between here and Earth were filled with an atmosphere, this atmosphere would be superheated by the Sun and there would be no human life on Earth.  the temperature on Earth would be too high to sustain human life.
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Both a radio and an ear respond logarithmically. A doubling of sound (3DB) will give a barely perceptable increase in the sound we hear,\nSame is true of am RF radio wave
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i once read an article on weapons using noise to cause feelings of nausea and lightheadedness, along with extreme confusion.  theres the flashbang grenade, which doesnt explode but uses  ultrasound to violently shake the water in the eardrum, causing dizziness.  Then theres the highly experimental ring-vortex cannon, which fires a circular sound wave extrememly fast,knocking back adults, but can break bones and cause complete deafness.  But lethal, other than the cannon, i dont think there is anything like that yet.
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The reaction to music is an odd one. The "Mythbusters" did a segment on it once. It seemed that the more SOUND a plant recieved usually resulted in more growth. Therefore, yes music does affect plants.
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The seismic waves act like the pinging of sonar. Different densities and thicknesses affect the speed of the waves passage through the ground from the epicenter to various detection devices. Sharp differences in density between layers produce reflections that can be distinguished from the main burst.
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The noise aliens make.
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the sonic level is below human hearing.
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Depending on where you live, there are noise restrictions at certain times. So it's not like no planes fly at all, it all depends on the decibel output their engines make.
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Never going to happen for the sort of power you seem to be thinking about. \n\nYou need to research the efficiency of loudspeakers (and by default dynamic microphones). Not a good way of converting energy. \n\nConsider an airport... if was viable they would have banks and banks of mics under the flight path... free noise therefore free energy? Nope - because its just not efficent enough as a concept / system. \n\nConsider also the inertia required to start an memberane moving - thats most of of the sonic energy absorbed before the coil has moved to induct a tinnnnnnny current. \n\nNice thought though - do the research - there might be some milage in a a few really large diagphram dynamic mics catching some sub sonic energy (below about 40Hz). \nAs a tip the real energy is in the low freq. Ultra sonic (+20kHz) is good for close quarters 'vibration' type energy (think microwave).\n\n\nEDIT: to person below me, did you actually read the question? Ultrasound and Sonar are ways of using sound to achieve things, but not to change to electricity as per the original question: 'for producing electricity in order to do work'\n\nThe work Sonar systems and ultrasound systems do is powered by mains and battery power, and the sound is both produced and recaptured internally...
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an event that is effecting the atmosphere today was the mass production of cars and industrial sites in the world. this is hurtin the atmoshperic ozone layer.the carbon monozide coming out of these things is whats doing all the damage
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We might be.  True, technologies have enabled the human race to rise above other species.  But at what cost?  Think about how much damage to the environment has been done- people cutting down trees and destroying habitats to make room for factories, for instance.  Or the pollution resulting from all this- manufacturers pumping their waste into our waterways or belching smoke from their chimneys, to name a few.  But, we could use this smartness to our advantage- finding ways of having this technology without the downsides.