On Xmas Eve I was shopping with my daughter and saw a whole load of Kung fu hamsters where you press his hand and he sings.
For a laugh I lined up about 30 of them and pressed their hands as quick as I could so they were all going off on one. It was that loud that quite a few people looked over and I got a bit embarrassed.
Then it got me thinking afterwards, how does the whole decibel thing work? If each hamster was 20db and all 30 were singing at the same time why was it so much louder if they are all outputting 20db each? Everyone seemed to look over so I don't know how much louder it was. If they are all the same volume why was it so much louder? Obviously there were a lot more of them....
I was never any good at physics and stuff...
For a laugh I lined up about 30 of them and pressed their hands as quick as I could so they were all going off on one. It was that loud that quite a few people looked over and I got a bit embarrassed.
Then it got me thinking afterwards, how does the whole decibel thing work? If each hamster was 20db and all 30 were singing at the same time why was it so much louder if they are all outputting 20db each? Everyone seemed to look over so I don't know how much louder it was. If they are all the same volume why was it so much louder? Obviously there were a lot more of them....
I was never any good at physics and stuff...