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**Experiment: Sound Lensing with Helium Balloons**
* A Patreon supporter, Zack, observed that placing a helium balloon between a sound source and listener reduces the sound volume, unlike with air-filled balloons.
* The creator's theory: Helium balloons act as a convex **sound lens**, but with an opposite effect to optical lenses due to helium being **less acoustically dense** than air.
* **Experimentation:**
+ Helium-filled balloons indeed defocus (reduce) sound.
+ A concave lens shape or using a gas denser than air (carbon dioxide) can create a focusing sound lens.
+ Successful experiments with both a spherical and a traditional lens-shaped balloon filled with CO2, demonstrating sound lensing.
**Unrelated Segment: Browser Switching (Sponsored by Brave)**
* Chrome is not open-source, but based on the open-source Chromium core.
* Switching to a Chromium-based browser like Brave can be seamless, with compatible extensions and easy transfer of settings.
* Brave is highlighted for its privacy focus, blocking tracking and ads, resulting in faster performance and lower data usage.
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**Physics and Experimentation**
1. A helium-filled balloon can reduce the volume of a distant sound when placed between the sound source and the observer.
2. This effect does not occur with normal air-filled balloons.
3. The phenomenon is attributed to the balloon acting as an acoustic lens.
4. Helium is less acoustically dense than air.
5. When sound passes from a medium with low acoustic density (helium) to one with higher density (air), it bends away from the normal.
6. A convex lens shape in a less dense medium can cause sound to diverge, unlike in optics where a convex lens in a more dense medium (e.g., glass) focuses light.
7. For a sound lens to focus sound effectively, the sound's wavelength must be substantially smaller than the lens's geometry.
8. A wavelength of around 35 cm (approximately 1 kHz frequency) is used in the experiment for effective lensing.
**Lens Geometry and Construction**
9. The experiment uses a spherical (balloon) lens due to its ease of creation.
10. Spherical geometry is not perfect for focusing light or sound to a single point but is a good approximation for thin lenses.
11. A more traditional lens shape was also created using a Mylar balloon with a copper pipe-reinforced rim.
12. Carbon dioxide, being denser than air, is used to fill a convex lens to demonstrate focusing of sound.
**Experimental Setup and Results**
13. A phone generating white noise, skewed towards higher frequencies, was used as a sound source.
14. The focal length of the lens was calculated to ensure the experiment's feasibility.
15. A microphone was used to detect the focal point of sound.
16. Experimental results show a noticeable increase in sound amplitude at the focal point with the convex CO2-filled lens.
17. Conversely, a helium-filled balloon demonstrates a decrease in sound amplitude, acting as a diverging lens.
**Unrelated to the Main Experiment (Browser Information)**
18. Chrome is not fully open-source but is based on the open-source project Chromium.
19. Other browsers, like Brave, can be built on the Chromium core.
20. Chromium-based browsers are compatible with Chrome extensions, allowing for easy transfer of settings and extensions.