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The sounds, recorded on a microphone in air and on a hydrophone beneath the liquid, when a solid body strikes the surface are recorded and correlated with cine-photographs of the cavity formed on entry. Measurements of base pressure on a projectile forming a cavity are also made. It appears that the major contribution to the sound comes from pulsations of the cavity.
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E. G. Richardson (1955) studied this question.
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