Acoustic experiments with a smartphone

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Alfonso D’Ambrosio

Abstract

We show how the speed of sound - in air and in water - can be measured using a smartphone. We also describe a simple method to measure the Doppler effect, sound intensity attenuation, wave sound interference and diffraction.

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