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Subject: [Leica] why do bombs whistle?
From: faneuil at gmail.com (Eric Korenman)
Date: Sun Nov 2 04:03:04 2008
References: <754E60FA7B522D6DA1DAE716@hindolveston.reid.org> <704DE2FFEA684C77BDBA6E3F0F9A54BE@jimnichols> <20081101222146.GE26644@panix.com> <BC7DEA4A-9CD7-4459-84C2-B1F7128F77EE@charter.net>

thanks to all.

I figured it was doppler based, but I would think the pitch would
INCREASE as the bomb falls toward you.
I am basing this on the increased pitch of car siren coming toward you.
OR or as a different concept, a standing wave in an organ pipe as you
shorten it, the pitch increases.

Could the drop in pitch be related to change in air density through
which the falling object passes?

Comp sci is computer science. But in the 80's we were programming in
LISP and Pascal..
So that is worth 3 cents in today's market.
My dad used to reminisce about programing by punch cards.

Eric

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 9:39 PM, slobodan dimitrov
<s.dimitrov@charter.net> wrote:
> Ah! You must mean something like a "master of science in business".
> An oxymoron if there ever was one.
> s.d.
>
> On Nov 1, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
>
>> in grad school my comp sci professor waggishly remarked that any
>> field of study whose name contained the word "science," was not.
>>
>> -rei
>>
>> On Nov01 16:56, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>
>>> Isn't Political Science an oxymoron?
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Reid"
>>> <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 4:51 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] why do bombs whistle?
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> What is "comp sci"?  I am rather hostile to cutsey phrases like this:
>>>>>  if you want to say something, say it.
>>>>
>>>> "Comp sci" is the universal nickname at every US university for
>>>> Computer Science.
>>>> Similar to "Poly Sci" for Political Science.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>> Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
>> Ridgewood, New Jersey
>>
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