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How could a converging lens be made for sound waves? (Such

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How could a converging lens be made for sound waves? (Such a lens, a spherical bag of gas, is a feature of San Francisco’s Exploratorium.)

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How could a converging lens be made for sound waves? (Such a lens, a spherical bag of gas, is a feature of San Francisco’s Exploratorium.)

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For focusing sound waves, we can build a device similar to an optical lens. Because glass has a slower speed of light than air, lenses are manufactured of glass to refract light.

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