Last summer, for the Glastonbury music festival in England, British phone carrier Orange produced T-shirts that used a so-called piezoelectric panel to convert sound pressure waves into electricity.

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Early ideas suggested blunting the nose of the plane to prevent the pressure waves joining up to form one intense shock wave, or lengthening the plane without increasing its weight to dampen the noise.

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As an aircraft flies it creates waves of pressure as it pushes its way through the air.

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Spreading the area of air pressure over the jet staggers the sound waves and decreases the intensity of the boom.

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Every day, organizations struggle to stay relevant, riding the choppy waves of economic uncertainty, competitive pressure and customer demands.

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Especially in tense situations, our brains are under pressure to process droves of details coming at us in waves.

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And then again you get another wave of you know troubles within the NLD and too much pressure and cracking up, it's really like waves going up and down, and that's politics.

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Last month, the PacX four got caught in a storm with 26-foot waves, winds up to 115 miles an hour, and pressure as low as the eye of a hurricane.

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