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Sound Effects in Polar Conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Brian Roberts
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The impressive and all-pervading quietness following a fall of snow is a commonplace experience, though, so far as the writer is aware, only one set of measurements of the sound absorption of snow has been published. A cold spell in December 1938 provided a suitable opportunity to make such measurements in the reverberating chamber of the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington.

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Polar Record , Volume 4 , Issue 27 , January 1944 , pp. 123 - 125
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1944

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page 123 note 1 Kaye, G. W. C. and Evans, E. J., Nature, 14 01 1939, p. 80.Google Scholar

page 124 note 1 The velocity in metres per sec. at any temperature in ° C. is given approximately by .

page 124 note 2 The geometrical laws of reflection of sound waves are the same as apply to light waves, the angles of incidence and reflection being equal and in the same plane.