On October 6, a teleconference dedicated to sounds connected the Atomic Energy Information Centres of Murmansk, Voronezh, and Smolensk. The speaker from the region and VSU was Head of the Department of Innovations, PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Associate Professor Dmitry Zhukalin.
The invited experts considered the sound from the point of view of physics, linguistics, and medicine. Lectures and interactive sessions for the participants of the teleconference were conducted by Alexandra Nizovets a specialist from Murmansk multidisciplinary center named after N.I. Pirogov FMBA of Russia, Professor of Smolensk State University, DSc in Philology, Roman Belyutin. VSU employee Dmitry Zhukalin told the audience about the wave nature of sound.
“The whole beauty of music is not in one specific sound wave or pure sound, but in the large number of overtones that make up harmony” said PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Associate Professor Dmitry Zhukalin.
After the speech, the participants of the teleconference were offered to play a game in which they had to guess one or another sound based on its spectrogram. The participants from Voronezh solved the singing of birds, those from Murmansk solved the purring of a cat, and those from Smolensk managed to identify the sound of a water jet escaping from a whale based on the spectrogram.
At the end of the teleconference, guests from all three cities tried to create noises in their own Information Centrers and measure their levels using sound level meters. Atomic Energy Information Centre of Voronezh turned out to be the loudest, chanting football chants at a volume of up to 100 dB.
Photo: Atomic Energy Information Centre of Voronezh group in VKontakte
