2006-10-06 00:50:34 · 20 answers · asked by GS1 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
For the record, I mistakenly submitted this question twice when I was meaning to edit it, due to a mis-spelling. I deleted one within minutes so that there wasn't a repeat. Princess below obviously doesn't understand these things! Thank you to those who have already given her a thumbs down.
Any more answers?! I know the answer, but want to see how many of you in the world get it right!
2006-10-06 01:02:04 · update #1
The end of a whip I would think
2006-10-06 00:58:12 · answer #1 · answered by Michael H 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The most notable breaking of the sound barrier (going faster than
the speed of sound ~760 miles/hour = Mach 1) is probably Chuck
Yeager's flight in 1947. This was the first time a plane was able
to travel faster than the speed of sound. However, long before this
at least one other common object was able to break the sound barrier,
a whip. The crack of a whip occurs when the tip of the whip travels
faster than the speed of sound. The air pressure caused by the tip
of the whip running into the air can't immediately escape because it
can't move out of the way of the whip. This build up is responsible
for the loud crack that you hear. This crack is the same thing as the
sonic boom heard when jets travel faster than the speed of sound.
I'd imagine that whips have been used for a long time, but I have no
way of saying if they were the first objects to break the sound barrier.
2006-10-06 00:59:39 · answer #2 · answered by tee_hee_ssh 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bell X-a million rocket, piloted by skill of Chuck Yeager in 1971. Cannon shot are too large and slow to attain Mach-a million at sea factor, and a bullet with adequate potential to go out the muzzle at Mach-a million (the fastest consider its trajectory) would blow the gun aside and maximum of you, too. It became theory the sound barrier became a actual decrease on the time, so as that any actual merchandise going swifter than sound would fall down. For good or ill, it became no longer authentic.
2016-11-26 20:47:01 · answer #3 · answered by lohr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For unmanned objects the bullwhip or stockwhip was probably the first man-made object to move faster than the speed of sound. The tip of the whip breaks the sound barrier and causes a sharp crack- literally a sonic boom. Many forms of ammunition also achieve supersonic speeds.
2006-10-06 01:32:40 · answer #4 · answered by Basement Bob 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you get a whip to crack the noise is the tip whip breaking the sound barrier! This probably happened for the first time several thousand years ago.
2006-10-06 00:59:07 · answer #5 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
X1 - flown by Chuck Yaeger in 1947.
2006-10-06 02:14:14 · answer #6 · answered by Kevin F 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not exactly what you asked but Chuck Yeager was the first man to break the sound barrierhttp://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/yea0bio-1
2006-10-06 01:02:50 · answer #7 · answered by Thisbysghost 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A bullwhip.
The crack that is heard is the tip of the whip breaking the sound barrier. It literally is a small sonic boom.
2006-10-06 00:59:12 · answer #8 · answered by J.D. 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Anna Nicole Smith, running toward a McDonald's.
2006-10-06 00:59:47 · answer #9 · answered by CrankyYankee 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Bullwhip
Ammunition
and some propellers of the WWII planes
2006-10-06 01:21:52 · answer #10 · answered by spyblitz 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋