Naked Science Forum
Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: AndroidNeox on 09/01/2015 23:56:40
-
We think of the sound made by snapping our fingers as being really fast, but how fast is it? I'm guessing, it must be at least tens of milliseconds in duration.
-
The level of the heard/recorded sound takes about two milliseconds to decay ...
http://www.freesound.org/people/medialint/sounds/11869/
But the event will be of shorter duration, the decay-period is in part the ear-drum/microphone-diaphragm ringing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringing_%28signal%29).
[ I'm assuming there is no reverberation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverberation) from the room ]