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- From: dodd@OES.ORST.EDU (Stirling S. Dodd)
- Newsgroups: rec.scuba
- Subject: Re: Sound Direction Indicators
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 13:07:13 GMT
- Organization: Applied Research Laboratories, Austin, Texas
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- References: <1993Jan20.134636.4345@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1jk3eqINNhh6@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> <C16puC.Jz5@news.cs.andrews.edu>
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- In article <C16puC.Jz5@news.cs.andrews.edu> maierj@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Joey Maier) writes:
- >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:
- >>>>
- >>
- >>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.
- >
- >Karen Pryor, Dolphin Trainer at Sea Life Park, from her 1973 book _Lads
- >before the Wind_
- >
- >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 :)
- >
-
- They must be pretty stupid physicists. I for one am a Physicist working
- on my PhD with specialty of Linear Acoustics, and particulary SONAR. This
- is one of the most trivial types of problems, and admits a very simple solution.
- It's nice to know that someone has actually been successful with this.
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