Shock Waves
Resources
- meteors
- Meteorite in Russia: all videos in one place. Alexander Zaytsev. Chelyabinsk meteorite of 15 February 2013.
- Лаборатория Метеоритики, Институт геохимии и аналитической химии им. В.И. Вернадского РАН (Laboratory of Meteoritics, Vernadsky Institute RAN). The most comprehensive and informative list of videos of the Chelyabinsk meteorite — in Русский and English.
- Space shuttle
- Infrasound of Space Shuttle Columbia. David P. Anderson. Southern Methodist University (2006).
- Shock Waves from Shuttle Columbia. Geotech Instruments, LLC.
- whip cracking
- On the dynamics of a bull whip. B. Bernstein, D.A. Hall, H.M. Trent. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Vol. 30 No. 12 (December 1958): 1112–1115.
- Does the tip of a snapped towel travel faster than sound? Nicolas Lee, Spence Allen, Elizabeth Smith, and Loren M. Winters. The Physics Teacher. Vol. 31 No. 6 (September 1993): 376–377.
- Supersonic sauropods? Tail dynamics in the diplodocids. Nathan P. Myhrvold and Philip J. Currie. Paleobiology. Vol. 23 No. 4 (October 1997): 393–409.
- Miscellaneous
- Alpha Cam: Runaway Star. Astronomy Photo of the Day (24 November 2006).
- Was Chuck Yeager the First to Break the Sound Barrier? Brian Dunning. Skeptoid. No. 154 (19 May 2009). We all know that Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, but did others beat him to it?
- Plasma Magic: Will plasmas start an aerospace revolution? Justin Mullins. New Scientist. (28 October 2000): 26–29.
- NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: Sonic Booms. Armstrong Flight Research Center (28 February 2014).
- Sonic Boom. United States Air Force Fact Sheet (25 April 2003).
- Thrust SSC. The Thrust Supersonic Car was the first land vehicle to travel faster than sound. Its top speed was 341 m/s (1,228 km/h, 763 mph).
- Video on demand
- The sonic boom problem. Katerina Kaouri. TED-Ed. YouTube (10 February 2015). Objects that fly faster than the speed of sound (like really fast planes) create a shock wave accompanied by a thunder-like noise: the sonic boom. These epic sounds can cause distress to people and animals and even damage nearby buildings. Katerina Kaouri details how scientists use math to predict sonic booms' paths in the atmosphere, where they will land, and how loud they will be.