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- From: maierj@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Joey Maier)
- Subject: Re: Sound Direction Indicators
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- References: <1jh5fdINNp0g@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> <1993Jan20.134636.4345@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1jk3eqINNhh6@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 03:32:34 GMT
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- In article <1jk3eqINNhh6@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> dodd@OES.ORST.EDU (Stirling S. Dodd) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.134636.4345@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jwall@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Wall) writes:
- >>>
- >
- >I figured it was a simple memory error (my little bro calls em brain farts).
- >
- >It does present an interesting idea. Since the speed is only 5 or so times
- >as fast, the wavelength would be scaled likewise. Since it is the shortness
- >of the wavelength with respect to the ear to ear distance that destroys our
- >perception of directivity, it seems that our ears would only require about
- >5 times the separation. I don't have time to calculate the directivty
- >of this dipole reciever with a big obstrction in the way (your head) but,
- >consider this:
- >
- >My ear to ear gap is about 10 inches, or .254 m. So 5 * this is about 1.25 m.
- >I'm 6'4" (~2 m) so if I took an earphone, connected it to a microphone, say
- >near my knee, I might have enough separation to distinguish the direction!
- >
- >I haven't tried this, but it sure seems plausible.
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- Karen Pryor, Dolphin Trainer at Sea Life Park, from her 1973 book _Lads
- before the Wind_
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- Sound travels five times faster in water than in air. To compensate for
- this, Wayne made a pair of human pinnae out of steel and plastic, five
- times bigger and five times farther apart than our ears on our heads.
- These had hydrophones lowered into them and were lowered into the water
- while Gregory and his students, inside the Essex, listened through the
- Ears via earphones. I have heard physicists pish-tush this arrangement,
- but in truth, Gregory felt that it gave him quite a bit of directional
- hearing, with practice, and he discovered, among other things, that
- sometimes what sounds like one porpoise whistle to us is actually made
- by two or more animals.............
-
- BTW, that is on page 162 if anyone wants to check my typing skills :)
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