“A whispering gallery is a gallery beneath a dome or vault or enclosed in a circular or elliptical area in which whispers can be heard clearly in other parts of the building."
St Paul’s Cathedral is the Anglican Cathedral on Ludgate Hill, in the City of London and dates from the 17th century. The Whispering Gallery’s name comes from the fact that a whisper whispered by a person facing the wall on one side, can clearly be heard by a listener with an ear held at any other point to the wall around the gallery. This doesn’t work for normal voiced speech but only for whispered speech.
“The prevailing theory behind why whispering galleries work (first proposed in 1871 by British astronomer George Airy to explain St. Paul’s cathedral) is that sound originating at one point along the circumference of an enclosed sphere is reflected to another point along the circumference opposite the source.”
According to experts, a whisper directed tangentially to the surface is clearly heard on the other side of the gallery because the whisperer’s voice follows the curve of the domed ceiling. This phenomenon is especially assisted by the fact that the walls are dome-shaped because this means that instead of the upward-directed components of the whispered sounds being lost above, it rather tends to be reflected downwards and is conserved. The late Lord Rayleigh (1904) explained that the acoustical effects observed are due to the curvilinear propagation of sound and the waves which “proceed from a source placed close to the wall of the gallery clinging to its surface and creeping tangentially along it”. He stated that the effects were not due to the sound being a reflection of the dome overhead but rather to a waveguide effect.
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When I entered through the main gallery entrance, the first thing that I noticed was this colorful glass sculpture in the middle of the room. I was in awe at how beautiful the sculpture was and the way how the light was reflected on the sculpture really emphasized the
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Throughout the past century, investigations of quantum and particle physics phenomena have proven to show the most significant concepts and ideas in the physical and sub-atomic world. However, the discoveries yet to be made are endless. One of the most fascinating concepts in the sub-atomic universe is the idea of spintronics. Spintronics is the quantum study of the independent angular momentum (not to be confused with the orbital angular momentum of the electron) of a particle, typically that of an electron (Introduction). An electron is a fundamental particle, with a negative charge, and is independently studied in the process of spintronic devices. The spin angular momentum of electrons is ±½ћ. Devices that use the properties
As I walked deeper into the gallery, I found myself walking through what looked like a church with pillars of stone, stained glass windows, ...
down behind many layers of glass in a sort of leather conservatory we started towards town?
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