Question:
Advantages and disadvantages of resonance?
anonymous
2008-01-28 05:04:45 UTC
I need to know the bad effects of resonance and the application of resonance in our daily lifestyle... hope u guyz can help me out here!
Eight answers:
purplepeace59
2008-01-28 07:50:19 UTC
Hearing occurs when the ear drum (typanic membrane) resonates to sound waves hitting it. Microphones and the diaphragm in the telephone works in much the same way. Speakers in hi fi's, T.V's etc. use resonance as well.



Resonance is used in guitars and pianos, as well as wood wind instruements.



Resonanse is also used to shatter gall stones in patients using ultra sound. The late Sha of Iraq/Iran had this done.



MRI scans (Magnetic Resonance Imaging scans) are used everyday in hospitals for diagnostic purposes and also for industrial purposes.



A negative effect of resonance could be the effect of waves hitting a rock face. The vibration of kinetic energy from the wave resonantes through the rock face causing cracks and eventually great slabs of the cliff fall into the sea. We have this problem in Swansea.



In a car crash a passanger may be injured because there chest is thrown hard against the seat belt. the vibration can burst blood vessels. Bruising of the skin or internal organs such as concusion of the brain can be casued because of the vibration of a movement.



More gruesomly, I was told by and x army nurse that if your shot with a bullet the resonance of the bullet hitting the body can cause liquifaction of the internal organs, this can also occur if you are near a loud explosion. The vibration of the explosion will apparently burst blood vessels and liquify some of the organs. I suppose the liver and brain, which are jelly like anyway would be easily liquified with an intense vibration.
wandera1970
2008-01-28 05:26:07 UTC
Simlpy put. Bad effects of resonance is when bridge builders get it wrong and the wind causes it to resonate at its own frequency. Causing it to tear its self apart. Like the Tacoma Bridge in 1940. Kind of like a singer hitting a high note and shattering a glass.

(see first link). And as for useful applications in our daily lives are speakers that resonat sound which we can hear as voice and music. Also the MRI (Magnetic resonance imaging)scanning machines that look inside your body and are used to detect many things that can go wrong. (see second link)
Aries
2008-01-28 05:17:16 UTC
Some applications of resonance in everyday life:

Pushing a swing, Talking and musical instruments (acoustic resonance)



Some bad effects:

Shattering glass when a high pitched sound is played (like a singer's voice)

Earthquakes and damage to buildings.
appleton_strings
2008-01-28 06:18:29 UTC
One unusual effect of resonance that I remember reading about is due to the vibration of a helicopter (because of the rotors) - the frequency sometimes causes resonance in the pilots' brains and affects their vision, to the point where obstacles such as power lines can completely disappear from view.
mgf2k
2008-01-28 05:41:20 UTC
with reference to the bridge answer someone posted, yes indeed resonace can set a bridge swinging and destroy it. For this reason any body of men e.g. the army always break step and dont march over a bridge so that they dont risk hitting its resonance frequency.



Just an insteresting side note you can put in.
lunchtime_browser
2008-01-28 05:17:41 UTC
Do a search on "Tacoma Narrows bridge"!
slippery magoo
2008-01-28 05:08:15 UTC
Ask the OLD BAT next door dude?.....
angel
2008-01-28 05:10:45 UTC
disadvantage is that we hav to learn abt it..


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