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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: AndroidNeox on 09/01/2015 23:56:40

Title: How long does the sound of snapping your fingers last?
Post 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.
Title: Re: How long does the sound of snapping your fingers last?
Post by: RD on 10/01/2015 03:29:17
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 ]