The students had just broken the sound barrier — with a ping-pong ball. “This has been a true engineering project,” said Kristine Lang, chair of CC’s physics department.

They then played 1,590Hz sound waves from the speaker array to glide the ball through a pre-planned path while microphones detected feedback known as a scattering matrix as it bounced off the ball.

Here's a look back at how the name "ping-pong" originated and what it's called at the 2024 Olympics. Skip to content. ... who sampled the sound of a table tennis ball bounce in a song.

We took a sound level meter and measured the sound produced by 10 strikes of pickleball and paddle, and 10 strikes of a tennis ball and racquet. The sound level meter picked up slightly louder ...

Here's a look back at how the name "ping-pong" originated and what it's called at the 2024 Olympics. Skip to content. ... who sampled the sound of a table tennis ball bounce in a song.