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A whispering gallery is a gallery beneath a dome or vault or enclosed in a circular or elliptical area in which whispers can be heard clearly in other parts of the building. A whispering gallery is ...
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St Paul's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral on Ludgate Hill, in the City of London, and the seat of the Bishop of London. The present building dates from the 17th century and is generally reckoned ...
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The paper is entitled: “High-Q surface-plasmon-polariton whispering-gallery microcavity.” In addition to Zhang and Vahala, other authors of the paper were Bumki Min, Eric Ostby, Volker Sorger, Erick Ulin-Avila and Lan Yang.
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Go to google.com and type "whispering gallery ellipse sound" into the search box, then hit return. Look at the second returned URL, the one titled "Science 122 Program 11 Kepler's Laws".
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The Conic Sections ... The conics were discovered by Menaechmus about 350 BC. He found them while trying to solve the classical construction problem of doubling the cube. Suppose you have a cube of volume 1. Then its sides have length 1 also. ... Whispering galleries, such as the old Senate chamber in DC.
www.dean.usma.edu/math/people/rickey/class/conics.html
Somewhat more common is the whispering gallery where sound is propagated along the walls of the gallery. A famous one exists in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, that was explained by Lord Rayleigh in 1904 as not due to reflection from the dome overhead, but to a waveguide effect.
www.du.edu/~jcalvert/math/ellipse.htm
This has been called the ``whispering gallery'' effect and has been used by many in the design of special rooms. In particular, St. Paul's Cathedral and one of the rooms at the United States Capitol were built with this in mind.
www.krellinst.org/UCES/archive/resources/conics/node70.... www.krellinst.org/UCES/archive/resources/conics/node70.html
Discover the hidden secrets of the Grand Central Terminal Train Station -- including the whispering gallery, FDR's secret passage, the kissing room and more. ... The Whispering Gallery...
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