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On 4/20/2011 10:48 PM, RichD wrote:
This may be a dumb question, I never studied acoustics....

If you look into the wrong end of a telescope,
everything looks reduced, 'anti-magnified'.
Is there anything analogous acoustically?

In both cases, the phenomena is described
by wave equations -

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Rich

How about an amphitheater like the Hollywood bowl.
Audience members are effectively at the 'anti-magnified'
wrong end of that acoustic telescope. That's about the
closest analogy I can think of at the moment.


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Ron Capik
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