2006-12-06 11:31:17 · 10 answers · asked by bentoro2001 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
as loud as it always is....the sonic boom is the sound of the compression wave "decompressing".
the compression wave would still be there, even with no engine....case in point: the space shuttle. it comes in for a landing via gravity...no engines at that point....just gliding....a "flying brick" as they call it. and the people in texas can tell you.....it still makes the windows rattle ;)
2006-12-06 11:40:17 · answer #1 · answered by mikesheppard 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with everybody else on the engines not creating any part of the sonic boom and the use of the space shuttle as an example but I just thought I would add in one more example that most people don't think of. Thunder is caused by the same principal that a sonic boom is based on. When a lightning bolt is created the air around the bolt expands and as it comes together it makes a loud crack or "boom" that we call thunder.
2006-12-06 13:55:57 · answer #2 · answered by hsupilot08 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sonic boom is not caused by the engines. It would be just as loud without the engines. The space shuttle is an excellent example. The reason that the primary landing zones are near the coast is to minimize the footprint of the sonic boom that it creates as it glides in without ANY engine power at all.
2006-12-06 12:53:16 · answer #3 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Engine noise is just a tiny part of the noise generated by a sonic boom. I don't think you would notice a difference.
2006-12-06 11:41:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When a plane goes faster than the speed of sound it bulds up a pressure or shock wave causing the sonic boom. engine nose has nothing to do with a sonic boom.
2006-12-06 16:21:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sonic boom is not produced by the engine, its made by breaking the sound barrier rapidly. It would sound the same without an engine.
2006-12-06 11:39:54 · answer #6 · answered by relaxed 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sound has difference frequencies. It depends on whether the noise being produced is in audible or inaudible frequency zone. For e.g. ultrasound. In anycase, a intensity of the sonic boom will can be detected by measuring magnitude of the sound's frequency that can detect the sound frequency the engine is producing (which is in audible frequency)
2006-12-06 11:42:18 · answer #7 · answered by Whisky213 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
it fairly is what the earlier posters have reported. As loud because it fairly is on the exterior of the airplane, there is not any sound in any respect from the interior the airplane whilst transitioning from sub-sonic to supersonic. The pitot-static gadgets - altimeter and airspeed indicator - momentarily circulate berserk and then each thing returns to commonly used.
2016-12-11 03:41:38 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would register 6.7 on the rector scale
2006-12-06 23:34:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm not even going to answer this,but there is one thing.............go to school.
2006-12-06 17:12:47 · answer #10 · answered by likeablerabbit_loose 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋