Thump, ring: the sound of a bouncing ball
Popular Physics
2012-05-22 v2 Classical Physics
Abstract
A basketball bounced on a stiff surface produces a characteristic loud thump, followed by high-pitched ringing. Describing the ball as an inextensible but flexible membrane containing compressed air, I formulate an approximate theory of the generation of these sounds and predict their amplitudes and waveforms.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0808.3278,
title = {Thump, ring: the sound of a bouncing ball},
author = {J. I. Katz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.3278},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
9 pp., 2 figs. New figure