Chapter 3:
Hiding Under The Covers, Listening For The Monsters

To access the pdf file for all the video links and journal citations for the items in the book, click on the pdf icon for "Chapter References & Comments” at the top of the page, next to Armando Armadillo. (Go to www.Adobe.com for a free pdf reader.) To access the updates and new items (not in the book), click on any "update" or "new" in the following list.
- 3.1 Howling of the wind
- 3.2 Singing of telephone wires and pine needles update Feb 2011
- 3.3 Whistles and whistling
- 3.4 Speaking and singing update Feb 2012
- 3.5 Speaking with helium
- 3.6 Throat singing
- 3.7 Snoring
- 3.8 Purring and roaring
- 3.9 Short Story: Sound from a Parasaurolophus dinosaur update Aug 2007 Oct 2007 May 2014
- 3.10 Sounds of tigers and elephants
- 3.11 Bullfrog croaking
- 3.12 Crickets and spiny lobsters
- 3.13 Frog playing a tree; cricket playing a burrow
- 3.14 Attack of the Australian cicadas
- 3.15 Penguin voices
- 3.16 Whale clicks
- 3.17 Reflection tone
- 3.18 Long-distance sound
- 3.19 Acoustic shadows
- 3.20 Hearing the Soviet subs
- 3.21 Cheerleader’s horn, foghorns
- 3.22 Direction of a whisper
- 3.23 Doppler shift
- 3.24 Bat finding an insect update April 2007
- 3.25 Bat finding a flower
- 3.26 Hearing underwater
- 3.27 Cocktail-party effect update Oct 2006
- 3.28 Sound emitted by the ears
- 3.29 Music in your head
- 3.30 Noise-induced hearing loss
- 3.31 Sound enhanced by noise
- 3.32 Stethoscopes and respiratory sounds
- 3.33 Tightening guitar strings and rubber bands
- 3.34 Bowing a violin
- 3.35 Flashing brilliance of a violin
- 3.36 Conch shells
- 3.37 Didgeridoo
- 3.38 Silo quaking and honking
- 3.39 Singing corrugated tubes
- 3.40 Coffee mug acoustics
- 3.41 Bottle resonance update Jan 2009
- 3.42 Fingers on a chalk board
- 3.43 Rubbing wineglasses update Mar 2008 Dec 2014
- 3.44 Shattering wineglasses with voice update Nov 2007
- 3.45 Murmuring brooks and rain noise
- 3.46 Jar and beaker resonance
- 3.47 Rumbling from plumbing
- 3.48 Knuckle cracking update Feb 2016
- 3.49 Korotkoff sounds
- 3.50 Attack of the killer shrimp update Oct 2006
- 3.51 Sounds of boiling water
- 3.52 Food crushing sounds
- 3.53 Snap, crackle, and pop update Nov 2013
- 3.54 Sonic booms from aircraft and bullets update June 2007 Oct 2010 Jul 2011
- 3.55 Sonic booms from train tunnels
- 3.56 Thunder
- 3.57 Brontides---mysterious booms from the sky
- 3.58 Rockfall and tree downing
- 3.59 Popping bull whips and wet towels
- 3.60 Coughing and sneezing
- 3.61 Acoustics of rooms and concert halls
- 3.62 Whispering galleries in various enclosures
- 3.63 Whispering gallery in St. Paul’s Cathedral update Apr 2015
- 3.64 Echoes from walls, corners, and forest groves
- 3.65 Musical echoes from stairs and fences update Nov 2006
- 3.66 Short story: Acoustics of ancient structures update Nov 2006
- 3.67 Singing in the shower
- 3.68 Noisy upstairs neighbor
- 3.69 Booming sand and squeaking sand update Oct 2006
- 3.70 Cracking ice and bergy seltzer
- 3.71 Audibility through snow
- 3.72 Sounds of walking in snow
- 3.73 “Can you hear the shape of a drum?”
- 3.74 Infrasound
- 3.75 Sounds of corn growing
- 3.76 Snapping cloth sounds
- 3.77 Culvert whistlers update Jun 2012
- 3.78 Slinky whistlers
- 3.79 Rifle-shot noises in permafrost regions
- 3.80 Hearing auroras and fireballs
- 3.81 Australian bullroarer Click on new to get the following new items (not in the book)
- 3.82 Strange sounds of stone hitting ice Nov 2006 Jan 2013
- 3.83 Sounds of putting Dec 2006
- 3.84 Fizzing in a glass Jan 2007
- 3.85 Sound mirrors to detect incoming enemy aircraft Mar 2007
- 3.86 Acoustic sculpture June 2007
- 3.87 Sounds of splashing June 2007
- 3.88 Musical roads Oct 2008
- 3.89 Whoopee cushions Mar 2009
- 3.90 Blowing raspberries Sep 2009
- 3.91 Vegetable and fruit musical instruments Jan 2010
- 3.92 Turning rude and crude noises into music Sep 2010
- 3.93 Pub trick --- popping a plastic straw Dec 2011
- 3.94 Cell phone camera inside a guitar May 2014
- Chapter 1Slipping Between Falling Drops(MOTION)
- Chapter 2Racing On The Ceiling, Swimming Through Syrup(FLUIDS)
- Chapter 3Hiding Under The Covers, Listening For The Monsters(SOUND)
- Chapter 4Striking At The Heat In The Night(THERMAL PROCESS)
- Chapter 5Ducking First A Flash And Then A Roar (ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM)
- Chapter 6Splashing Colors Everywhere, Like A Rainbow(OPTICS)
- Chapter 7Armadillos Dancing Against A Swollen Moon(VISION)
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