The sonic boom problem - Katerina Kaouri

Objects that fly faster than the speed of sound (like really fast planes) create a shock wave accompanied by a thunder-like noise: the sonic boom. These epic sounds can cause distress to people and animals and even damage nearby buildings. Katerina Kaouri details how scientists use math to predict sonic booms' paths in the atmosphere, where they will land, and how loud they will be.

Lesson by Katerina Kaouri, animation by Anton Bogaty.

[mechailreydon]

There’s a lot of great things about his video, but the fact that you used km/h is perhaps the greatest.

[itmekev]

This video auto played after a plane making a sonic boom right above a whole bunch of people of a beach

[aquibalamLUMOS]

Does anyone watching these videos thinks how easier life could be if ted-ed makes video for our schools and colleges ?

[igorilyasov]

oh man,  you forgot to mention the whip: the first man-made object to travel faster than the speed of sound. 

[justaperson]

The only problem of being faster than sound is you can only live in silence

[dashm]

0:54 Yes, I know, the Yeagers are crazy

[AdityaKKannan]

Probably the most well-explained video on sonic booms I've ever watched. The explanation for the doppler effect was great too.

[newmicrowave]

the problem with sonic boom is that it was a bad game

[michaelsams]

Technically, Chuck Yegar was the first person to break the Sound Barrier and lived to tell about it. During WW II fighter pilots during a power dive would sometimes break the sound barrier, but their plane would tear apart from the over pressures on the control surfaces thus crashing the plane & killing the pilots

[Iridium_yt]

Chuck Yeager: I can break the sound barrier
Shrimp in the ocean: hold my beer

[khangb]

So if I had a plane that could move faster than sound and have infinite fuel, I could keep flying around the earth without ever hearing the sound that I would be running away from?

[Aparna]

I am just curious..how do we know about the dinosaur whipping it's tail faster than speed of sound??

[Thxsober]

There used to be sonic booms all the time. Back in when I was age 4, 5 and 6 years old we would hear sonic booms almost every day and sometimes several of them a day. They would rattle all the windows and shake the whole house. It wasn't just where I lived in Kentucky because I also heard them at my grandparent's house in Clearwater FL. About 1964 or 65 they made the Air Force quite flying supersonic over most of the USA.

[bailey]

Maybe we should start making air crafts out of dino tails.

[theemeraldboat]

3:11 THAT ANIMATION IS SATISFYING AS HECK!!!

[bharathbrad]

Yeah, this is the video ppl of Bengaluru are searching for. U guys are in the right place!!!

[Iffy]

What a great video! I'm a mechanical engineer and I'm very familiar with waves, but I'm almost ashamed to say that my grasp of why there is a sonic boom and how it works was just about zero. After watching this video, it's crystal clear.

[maverick.gaurav]

TED-Ed The best introductory video on sonic boom I found on the internet so far...
The "simple" animations make it possible to understand easily..
Cheers..!! :)

[alonsocardenal]

I literally learned more in this video than in an entire Science unit at school.

[WGFinc]

In short:
Supersonic planes were too op because you could go too fast and damage your opponents at the same time so the devs banned them. However, that caused many supersonic plane enthusiasts to quit the game so the devs unbanned them over sea.