If you were traveling at the speed of sound and you turned on your radio would you be ! Able to hear it?
2006-07-27 04:47:22 · 11 answers · asked by teij 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Yes, pilots that have broken the sound barrier can still hear their radio--the one they are talking to the control people with. People on the Concorde could hear movies.
2006-07-27 04:51:38 · answer #1 · answered by Nelson_DeVon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would hear the sound in any closed space like a car or jet where the sound would propagate and travel normally. But if you were sitting on top of your car with a radio in back of you (with respect to the direction of travel), No - the sound wave would never reach you. If the radio is in front of you (again, with respect to travel direction), yes.
2006-07-27 12:01:06 · answer #2 · answered by gdt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you blew air at your radio at the speed of sound, you would not be able to hear it.... even if it was turned up full blast. The speed of sound is around 1100 feet per second... through air. If the air around the radio isn't moving at the speed of sound, you will hear it.
2006-07-27 11:57:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The receiver would be receiving, regardless of the speed at which the receiver were travelling. Thus the movement, which is relative, would not influence it.
It parallels the question: If you were in a falling elevator & jumped up before the elevator crashed, would you be safe? Of course, you wouldn't. The elevator would crash & compact, no matter what you were doing inside.
If you were travelling at the speed of light & turned on the switch, would the light come on? Yes. Same reason.
2006-07-27 11:55:04 · answer #4 · answered by Nihil Sanctus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The relative speed of the air in the cockpit is zero, i.e. no wind. So the pilot would not be going faster than sound with respect to his radio and its speakers.
2006-07-27 11:59:03 · answer #5 · answered by UROQ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ofcourse u hear it....unless u travel in an open system with that speed and another friend in the open system call sout to u...lol..me thinking too much...
but certainly in a closed system u hear the sound....
its like ....
a mosquito in air in a moving train doesnt hit the walls of the train...when the train moves
2006-07-27 12:50:22 · answer #6 · answered by aqua456 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Music
2006-07-27 11:53:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course you would. Pilots in supersonic aircraft use their radios for communication all the time.
The speed of light is a constant in all inertial reference frames, but the speed of sound is not.
2006-07-27 11:57:17 · answer #8 · answered by Jay H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes certainly. Since you are in a closed object, the sound waves would vibrate off the walls of your vehicle, and so you would endup hearing it, unless of course you put on ear muffs.
2006-07-27 11:54:08 · answer #9 · answered by nightraptor8000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never thought of it but now I think..yes
2006-07-27 11:51:31 · answer #10 · answered by scartissue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋