Friday, August 9, 2013

fighting fire with sound

This was an experiment that was conducted by college kids  because they wanted to see if they could extinguish flames using the soundwaves from speakers.

Hypothesis: 
they thought that if they dropped the air 
pressure using soundwaves they might be able to extinguish the fire.

Procedure: 
they used a zero gravity plane to simulate the space environment, then they lit a candle, then using the speakers proceded to increase the soundwaves so the air pressure would drop but it was inconclusive.

Results: 
the results of the test was that it didnt work but they will be trying again.

Conclusion: 
the test didnt really prove anything but they had already tested the sound vs. fire and that seemed to work in their lab. 
  

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