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I Made a Lens, But for Sound

2020-04-23

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Light and sound travel as waves. Lenses work by taking advantage of the fact the wave propagation changes direction when the wave passes between mediums for which the speed of the wave is different. This is called refraction. So it's should be possible to build a lens for sound using different gasses.

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Intro
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Sound test
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