The Last Stand, a mutant claps his hands and blasts a shockwave across a battlefield. In a theater somewhere, Sunny Jung watched—and wondered. “It made me curious about how the wave propagates when we ...

It can also be used to see sound. Sound ... he's also filmed more benign shock waves — a book landing on a table, the end of a towel being snapped, and a man clapping. You can see them all ...

The study, published in the journal Physical Review Research, shows that the sound of a clap is not just due to two hands smashing into each other.

A Helmholtz resonator consists of an enclosed cavity of air — like the inside of a glass bottle, or the space between clapping hands ... creating sound waves of a frequency that depends ...

One readily noticeable pathognomonic trait of autism is hand-flapping—a stereotyped motor movement that can look a bit like an attempt ... and the sound of so much clapping might be quite ...

Keep in mind that thunder is a compression, or shock wave...caused when lightning heats the air. A 'clap' comes from a single ... faster than the speed of sound. Thunder is essentially a sonic ...

That bubble escapes through small gaps, like the one between ... tiny movement and sound wave. They found that the shape of your hands plays a big role in how your clap sounds.