IN GREEK mythology, Echo was a mountain nymph who lost her voice and was condemned to repeat only the words of others. Now science is poised to silence the sprite completely. A group of physicists, ...

No, I am not sitting in my home theater at 6:00 a.m., ruminating about how the pattern on the wall from the lighting sconce looks different from the back row. This article is about sound reflections.

So far we have only considered sound in isolation and we have seen that sound has velocity, frequency, wavelength and reduces in intensity in proportion to the square of the distance from the source.

The content discusses the fundamentals of acoustics, focusing on sound refraction, the anatomy of the ear, and how sound waves are perceived. It explains how sound travels through the ear, the ...