2006-07-06 05:01:17 · 5 answers · asked by User1 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
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I mean, what's the differens between a wind puff and sound? Why isn't a wind puff sound? Sound is just waves in the air, which a wind puff should be to.
2006-07-06 05:26:08 · update #1
The airzooka does NOT generate a shock wave. What is does is it creates a ring vortex that moves forward when you pull the diaphragm. Think of when a person blows smoke rings. Its just a ring of air rotating about itself moving forward. That is essentially what the airzooka is doing.
check this website out on vortext ring launchers:
http://www.amasci.com/amateur/vortgen.html
A shock wave in air NEVER travels below the speed of sound. By definitian a shock wave in air is a wave that is created when the air molecules try to move faster than sound. When this happens, they bunch up and create a "wall" or wave of different pressure/temperature/speed than the air that travels faster than the speed of sound.
2006-07-06 13:03:39 · answer #1 · answered by polloloco.rb67 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speed of Sound is much faster than the speed of the air that is the shock wave, resulting in a delayed physical feeling. However, the closer one is to the airzooka, the smaller the difference between the sound and the shock wave, to the point where they can seem to travel at the same speed.
2006-07-06 05:29:14 · answer #2 · answered by That Kid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not really a shock wave, it's just a puff of wind. You really wouldn't want your kids playing with something that could propel a blast of air at 750 mph!
2006-07-06 05:14:50 · answer #3 · answered by injanier 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because sound is faster than wind
2006-07-06 05:05:55 · answer #4 · answered by Dude 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the shock wave is going very slowly, that's why.
2006-07-06 05:11:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋