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Why do Sonic booms occur?

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Sonic booms generate enormous amounts of sound energy, sounding a lot like an explosion. Thunder is a type of natural sonic boom, created by the rapid heating and expansion of air in a lightning discharge. Sonic booms occur on a daily basis via aircraft.


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If you encounter a sonic boom is that evedence that an aircraft of some sort exceeded the speed of sound moments ago to become supersonic. Define your answer.?

You can't really encounter a sonic boom, but sonic booms do occur when aircrafts exceed the speed of sound.


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Sonic booms occur when?

The object in question exceeds the speed of sound. Due to the Doppler Effect, the object is literally leaving it's sound behind, causing a large low frequency boom as it passes


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