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by gdubs 4125 days ago
This is an _incredibly_ well-crafted piece of work. I mean -- my god -- the pressure wave animation? [1]

1: http://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/sound.h...

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As a side note, the pressure that is waxing and waning in that diagram is very very small compared to atmospheric pressure.

The actual air molecules are moving at a much higher speed (the root mean squared velocity is dependent on the temperature). But if we imagine that these are weightless dust particles suspended in air, the diagram is accurate.

The D3 animations work great for me in Chrome, but my Firefox is choking on them - especially this one.