

Sonic booms due to large supersonic aircraft can be particularly loud and startling, tend to awaken people, and may cause minor damage to some structures. The crack of a supersonic bullet passing overhead or the crack of a bullwhip are examples of a sonic boom in miniature. Sonic booms generate enormous amounts of sound energy, sounding similar to an explosion or a thunderclap to the human ear. Conical shockwave with its hyperbola-shaped ground contact zone in yellowĪ sonic boom is a sound associated with shock waves created when an object travels through the air faster than the speed of sound. Mach cone angle NASA data showing N-wave signature. Observers hear nothing until the shock wave, on the edges of the cone, crosses their location. A sonic boom produced by an aircraft moving at M=2.92, calculated from the cone angle of 20 degrees.

Since the source is moving faster than the sound waves it creates, it leads the advancing wavefront. The sound source is travelling at 1.4 times the speed of sound (Mach 1.4). Sonic boom visible thanks to condensation of water vapor. This site is a great place to view original, early-19th-century maps of Illinois.For other uses, see Sonic Boom. In addition, the site links to an Illinois state website ( Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales), where researchers can search for the first owners of plats. A legend helps users decipher early 19th-century symbols. Visitors use a map of Illinois to locate the region and county of the plat they wish to view, and can pan left and right or zoom in and out. A 1,000-word narrative outlines the role of the United States Surveyor General, and traces the custody of these records through the years. Also included here are the maps, available to researchers and the public. This site includes a 1,000-word introductory history describing the surveying process and introducing the methods and tools of surveyors. When the government began surveying in 1803 what would later become Illinois, they divided the land into squares six by six miles (36 square miles) called townships. Designed as both an archive and an online exhibit, this site features 3,457 hand-drawn township maps of Illinois.
