what is the cloud thats behind them?
2006-07-06 15:52:43 · 7 answers · asked by trey_lachance2002 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Breaking the sound barrier means, plainly, accelerating to faster than the speed of sound. The cloud you see is the sudden expansion of the condensed moisture in the air that is super-compressed at the front of the plane, that becomes suddenly decompressed when the plane breaks through the sound barrier. See wikipedia entry linked below about the cloud.
2006-07-06 16:02:26 · answer #1 · answered by agentdenim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Breaking the sound barrier means moving faster than sound can travel in oxygen, therefore the speed of sound is different in other air densities and water. The cloud behind the aircraft is called a contrail and is infact the jet exhaust which propels the plane
2006-07-07 00:27:32 · answer #2 · answered by connor_monk87 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would most likely be a jet airplane. The sonic cloud actually starts out as a sonic ring around the aircraft at the instant of breaching the sound barrier. Then you see a nice cloud of water vapor.
2006-07-06 22:58:30 · answer #3 · answered by Poncho Rio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sound barrier can be broken by the snapping a whip. The snap results from the minor sonic boom as the tip of the whip rapidly changes direction and, for a brief moment of time, is going faster than the speed of sound in the air.
2006-07-06 23:18:47 · answer #4 · answered by Ѕємι~Мαđ ŠçїєŋŧιѕТ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To break the sound barrier is to go faster than the speed of sound. The X-1 was the first manned aircraft to travel at the speed of sound.
2006-07-06 23:05:31 · answer #5 · answered by Eric X 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Going faster than the speed of sound.
2006-07-06 22:56:46 · answer #6 · answered by thearthound 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look at howstuffworks.com
when I have questions like these, I go there!!!
2006-07-06 22:57:15 · answer #7 · answered by butanebird91 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋