Cornell University researchers have finally figured out exactly how human hand claps create their distinctive sound — and ...

(A sound made up of just one pitch is a sine wave.) brian0918//Wikimedia Commons A brass Helmholtz resonator. Helmholtz wanted to analyze the makeup of sounds, so he created small brass spheres ...

A new paper published in the journal Physical Review Research provides experimental support for the hypothesis that hand clapping essentially acts like a Helmholtz resonator—akin to the hum ...

The key to generating sound from clapping is a cavity of air that is compressed and pushed out of a small space. Scientists ...