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6:52 AM
@JohnRennie hi
 
Hi :-)
 
Actually sir I was reading about eddison phonogram
can u make me understand how the needle on the foil can record the sound
and how was he able to retrieve that sound
I mean how can a needle produced the same frequency of sound as I speak
 
I think he just ran the needle back through the groove and it made the needle vibrate.
And he had the needle connected to a metal plate, so the vibrations were transmitted to the plate and they mad ethe plate vibrate.
And that made the air vibrate next to the plate i.e. created a sound wave.
Something like that.
 
I think there was some voice clearance issue
when we replace needle with hearing device
 
You'd hav to Google to find out exactly how the phonograph worked.
 
6:58 AM
I did even saw a video
 
Then you know more about it than I do :-)
 
Ah U too have/had a gramaphone?
 
We had a gramophone when I was young, but by the time I was a teenager everyone used cassette tapes.
 
sir am i right when i say the horn of the gramophone worked as amplification tool
I mean like interference
constructive and distructive
 
I don't think interference is involved.
The horn is a form of impedance matching.
Have you studied impedance matching in transmission lines?
 
7:04 AM
YEs
 
In a transmission line the impedance is electrical impedance, but there is an equivalent concept of acoustic impedance that applies to the transmission of sound waves.
You get optimal transport when the impedance is matched everywhere along the path of the sound waves, and this is what the horn does.
 
oh I remember there was n experiment named bell in experiment right sir?
 
I'm not sure what experiment that would be ...
Acoustic impedance and specific acoustic impedance are measures of the opposition that a system presents to the acoustic flow resulting from an acoustic pressure applied to the system. The SI unit of acoustic impedance is the pascal-second per cubic metre (Pa·s/m3), or in the MKS system the rayl per square metre (rayl/m2), while that of specific acoustic impedance is the pascal-second per metre (Pa·s/m), or in the MKS system the rayl. There is a close analogy with electrical impedance, which measures the opposition that a system presents to the electric current resulting from a voltage applied...
Aha, Wikipedia has an article on acoustic impedance.
It's a bit mathematical though and doesn't mention the phonograph.
 
@JohnRennie
 
Aha, yes :-)
A vacuum is the worst possible impedance match for acoustic waves!
 

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