Cornell University researchers have finally figured out exactly how human hand claps create their distinctive sound — and ...

The Last Stand, a mutant claps his hands and blasts a shockwave across a battlefield. In a theater somewhere, Sunny Jung ...

The key to generating sound from clapping is a cavity of air that is compressed and pushed out of a small space. Scientists followed an interdisciplinary approach to understand clapping ...

Clapping creates sound through air pressure, not just hand impact. Shape, speed, and skin softness change the sound.

A round of applause, please: Scientists have finally figured out what’s behind the sound of clapping. The research pinpoints a mechanism called a Helmholtz resonator — the same acoustic ...

You stand a long distance from a wall, clap, and listen for the echo. The distance travelled is twice the distance from you to the wall (because the sound has to travel to the wall and back).

They also made soft polymer hand replicas designed to mimic the elasticity of human skin and used them to generate clapping sounds for comparison. The recorded frequencies matched the predictions ...

The research, published in the journal Physical Review Research, shows that the characteristic “pop” sound of a clap is not just from two hands smashing into each other but a much more complex ...