Supersonic

This page is about high speed motion of bodies such as airplanes through air or other fluids. For the video game character see Super Sonic. For the Oasis song, Supersonic (song). For the J J Fad hip-hop record, see Supersonic (album)."

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Any speed over the speed of sound, which is approximately 343 m/s, 1,087 ft/s, 761 mph or 1,225 km/h in air at sea level, is said to be supersonic. Speeds greater than 5 times the speed of sound are sometimes referred to as hypersonic.

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Sounds are vibrations in an elastic medium. In gases sound travels longitudinally at different speeds, mostly depending on the molecular mass and temperature of the gas; whilst pressure has a much smaller effect. Since air temperature and composition varies significantly with altitude, mach numbers for aircraft are related to the speed of sound at sea level. In water at room temperature supersonic can be considered as any speed greater than 1,440 m/s or 4,724 ft/s. In solids, sound waves can be longitudinal or transverse and have even higher velocities.

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Supersonic fracture is crack motion faster than the speed of sound in a brittle material. This phonomenon was first discovered by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart (Markus J. Buehler and Huajian Gao) and IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California (Farid F. Abraham).

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Super Sonic: :This page is about the video game character Super Sonic. For an entry on high-frequency sound waves, see supersonic....

Oasis: :For other senses of this word, see oasis (disambiguation), and for the band, see Oasis (band)....

Supersonic (song): "Supersonic" is a song by British rock band Oasis written by Noel Gallagher. It appears on their debut album, Definitely Maybe and was their first single to be released (aside from the limited, white-label release of "Columbia"). It peaked at #31 in the British Charts on April 11, 1994 making it the...

Supersonic related Images and Photos (experimental)

Sonic the Hedgehog Super Sonic Statue