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Posted by rick_m (A) on June 04, 2007 at 19:50:34

In Reply to: RE: some thoughts on polarity posted by truthseekerprime on June 04, 2007 at 10:41:27

Hi,

You said that "reflections off hard surfaces invert the phase of sound waves", which doesn't seem correct to me. I rather thought hard surfaces had a higher acoustic impedance than air and therefore reflect sound in-phase, not inverted.

Rick

• reflected waves - truthseekerprime 21:21:45 06/04/07 (11)
  • RE: reflected waves - rick_m 23:28:29 06/04/07 (10)
    • "I'm hanging on to my belief that sound waves do NOT invert when bouncing off of solid objects." - truthseekerprime 07:59:23 06/05/07 (6)
      • Wow! I'll own up to being wrong too. - Axon 21:23:17 06/05/07 (1)
        • Ah shucks... - rick_m 22:35:34 06/05/07 (0)
      • I agree... - rick_m 09:04:47 06/05/07 (3)
        • RE: I agree... - truthseekerprime 12:44:52 06/05/07 (2)
          • RE: I agree... - rick_m 16:32:53 06/05/07 (1)
            • RE: I agree... - unclestu52 23:46:54 06/05/07 (0)
    • RE: reflected waves - truthseekerprime 05:18:38 06/05/07 (2)
      • RE: reflected waves - rick_m 08:31:33 06/05/07 (1)
        • You're correct - see my post above - truthseekerprime 08:59:50 06/05/07 (0)

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