If you’re yelling upwind, a listener standing in front of you should have no problem hearing you — contrary to popular belief.
about the reason yelling upwind seems hard, so Pulkki and colleagues upped their technology game.
For the new study, the team put a simulated yeller — a cylinder and a speaker playing multiple tones — on top of a moving vehicle. Microphones measured sound amplitude at the location of the mouth and ears when the yeller was facing either upwind or downwind. The experiments together with computer simulationsA similar effect occurs when an ambulance goes by.
. But the siren is also slightly louder when moving toward a stationary observer than it is when it’s moving away. When you’re bellowing upwind, it’s not the source of sound that’s moving, but the medium in which the sound travels.Questions or comments on this article? E-mail us at
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