Magnetic fields on earth are not uniform and include many stray DC and AC magnetic fields, which create challenges for reliably and accurately testing satellite attitude control systems that utilize ...

Hand clapping is ubiquitous behavior for humans across time and cultures, serving many different purposes: to signify approval with applause, for instance, or to keep time to music. Acousticians often ...

Osiris, Vol. 28, No. 1, Music, Sound, and the Laboratory from 1750–1980 (January 2013), pp. 191-211 (21 pages) AbstractIn the mid-nineteenth century, Hermann von Helmholtz developed a new, ...

MOST medical students have probably felt that current physiological teaching provided them with only a hazy conception of the mechanism for hearing in the cochlea. Helmholtz put forward the view that ...